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Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 08:51:09 -0400
From: John Colagioia <JColagioia@csi.com>
Organization: No Conspiracy Here...
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Subject: Re: reply #69,105
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Starweaver wrote:

> Capsule [Gunther Schmidl || Fri, 11 May 2001 07:40:40 GMT || <9dh48q$3ia$1
> @news8.svr.pol.co.uk>] contained:
> >> Hau?... I only got this one. Don't know if it's your's or pacbell's
> >> fault... -RASX
> >Maybe *you* only got it once, but Magnus may have got 69,104 replies of
> >"Yes, I can see you" prior to this.
> >(60,105 is a 'special number' in IF. That's all the hints you'll get :-)
> >And I actually wanted to send it by e-mail. Darn.
> I meant i only got the message 'reply #xxx' which said it was a reply to
> something I could not see. :}

Ah...such is the joy of having hundreds (is it thousands, yet?) of servers
trying to coordinate and thread messages amongst each other without depending
on each other.

Sometime next week, you'll probably get the originating message ("[OT] Is
anybody seeing this?")...

I've honestly always been impressed that it doesn't happen more frequently,
overall...


