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From: snafu@ihuxi.UUCP (Dave Wallis)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Unmeaningful (read crappy) subjects
Message-ID: <813@ihuxi.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 23-Feb-84 20:25:29 EST
Article-I.D.: ihuxi.813
Posted: Thu Feb 23 20:25:29 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 24-Feb-84 03:09:21 EST
Organization: AT&T Technologies, Inc., Naperville Il.
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Taken from one of many recent submissions (no offense to poster!):


>  From ihnp4!harpo!seismo!rlgvax!cvl!elsie!#### Thu Feb 23 05:26:44 1984
>  Relay-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/30/84; site ihuxi.UUCP
>  Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site elsie.UUCP
>  Path: ihuxi!ihnp4!harpo!seismo!rlgvax!cvl!elsie!####
>  From: mark@elsie.UUCP
>  Newsgroups: net.taxes
>  Subject: Re: id AA12739; Wed, 22 Feb 84 05:23:25 pst
>  Message-ID: <821@elsie.UUCP>
>  Date: Thu, 23-Feb-84 05:26:44 CST
>  Article-I.D.: elsie.821
>  Posted: Thu Feb 23 05:26:44 1984
>  Date-Received: Thu, 23-Feb-84 17:55:28 CST
>  References: <676@houxz.UUCP>
>  Organization: NIH-LEC, Bethesda, MD
 
Note the article subject line:

>  Subject: Re: id AA12739; Wed, 22 Feb 84 05:23:25 pst

What kind of garbage is this?????  The net seems to be choked with
articles with subject strings even worse than "Orphaned Response"!
Are all these articles coming from the same machine 
or is some news software falling prey to malignant bit rot again?

No offense to the posters, but I refuse to read articles that don't
give a clue to what's in them (and I sure as hell can't remember all
of the article id's!).

Whew! did that ever feel good!

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                              Dave Wallis
                           ihnp4!ihuxi!snafu
                         AT&T Technologies, Inc.
                            (312) 979-5894