-={ Saturday, 11 June 2016, 18:49:09 -0400 }=-

Hey mark!

 ml> it is possible to have an echo with private messages in it as long
 ml> as the users are aware that every sysop can still read those
 ml> messages ;)

As well as everyone else in a distribution system.  Same with email way back
when the earth's crust was still cooling although that was tough to prove. 
Regardless, anytime I was told it was private I never, ever believed it.  I
can think of too many examples where people knew things they couldn't have
known unless they read it or the intended audience told them.

No big deal as far as I am personally concerned as I always prefer everything
posted is out in the open and have always assumed it potentially would be,
even email.

As for the message I quoted I doubt the user even knew the so-called 'private'
bit was turned on and if he did he was being extremely naive.  Heck even over
two decades later there it is again.

BTW I counted 2137 linefeeds in E6614010.PKT.  Tsk, tsk.

Life is good,
Maurice

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