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Re: FIDONET reposting (was Installer from Hell)

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From: Garance Drosehn
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 1991 02:45
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In article <40744@nigel.ee.udel.edu> johnston@oscar.ccm.udel.edu writes:
> I apologize to those of you who had to re-read an old-posting that
> had a happy ending 10 days ago.  I want to make it clear that I did
> not attempt to post via the FIDONET and that I am extremely angry
> that somebody created this impression, inadvertantly or not.

The stuffit thread was just one of many that got repeated by some 
Fidonet host.  Duplicate articles popped up on a number of different 
comp.sys.mac.* newsgroups.  All claim to be from 
         <original_person>@f20.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG

I imagine the Usenet gurus are beating up the offending site even as
we type...

Garance_Drosehn@mts.rpi.edu
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From: Garance_Drosehn@mts.rpi.edu (Garance Drosehn)
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Subject: Re: FIDONET reposting (was Installer from Hell)
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Date: 5 Jan 91 02:45:13 GMT
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