Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2(pesnta.1.3) 9/5/84; site epicen.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!nsc!csi!epicen!jbuck
From: jbuck@epicen.UUCP (Joe Buck)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Line Eater!
Message-ID: <279@epicen.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 25-Nov-85 23:49:49 EST
Article-I.D.: epicen.279
Posted: Mon Nov 25 23:49:49 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 27-Nov-85 05:49:03 EST
References: <897@ncoast.UUCP>
Distribution: net
Organization: Entropic Processing, Inc., Cupertino, CA
Lines: 51
Summary: Mutant bug: seems immune to "bug killer" line

> From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery)
> Date: 24 Nov 85 16:54:27 GMT
> 
> We received this last night.  All machines on the Path: please check your
> inews for the line eater!  (The follosing machines are known to be clean:
> ncoast, hal, cwruecmp, decvax, gatech, seismo.  These machines are exempt
> from the check.  :-)  --Brandon
> 
> ----------------------------------
> Relay-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ncoast.UUCP
> Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site nicmad.UUCP
> Path: ncoast!hal!cwruecmp!decvax!bellcore!petrus!sabre!zeta!epsilon!gamma!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!whuxl!whuxlm!akgua!gatech!seismo!uwvax!astroatc!nicmad!brown
> From: brown@nicmad.UUCP
> Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
> Subject: IBM changes XT mother board: cuases problems
> Message-ID: <431@nicmad.UUCP>
> Date: 20 Nov 85 05:32:22 GMT
> Date-Received: 24 Nov 85 08:21:10 GMT
> Distribution: net
> Organization: Nicolet Instrument Corp. Madison WI
> Lines: 30
> 
> 4LS32
> in the spare chip spot and gets labeld U90.

The message arrived at our site undamaged. Here's the header and beginning:

> Relay-Version: version B 2.10.2(pesnta.1.3) 9/5/84; site epicen.UUCP
> Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site nicmad.UUCP
> Path: epicen!pesnta!amd!vecpyr!lll-lcc!lll-crg!seismo!uwvax!astroatc!nicmad!brown
> From: brown@nicmad.UUCP
> Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
> Subject: IBM changes XT mother board: cuases problems
> Message-ID: <431@nicmad.UUCP>
> Date: 20 Nov 85 05:32:22 GMT
> Date-Received: 21 Nov 85 09:18:06 GMT
> Distribution: net
> Organization: Nicolet Instrument Corp. Madison WI
> Lines: 30
> 
> [munch  munch  munch  munch.  Boy, that old mother board sure tasted good]
>

Yes, he included a "bug killer" line, and his message was trashed anyway.
Has the line eater bug mutated? Quick, let's isolate it, before it spreads :-)

Well, this means uwvax, astroatc, and nicmad are innocent.
-- 
Joe Buck				|  Entropic Processing, Inc.
UUCP: {ucbvax,ihnp4}!dual!epicen!jbuck  |  10011 N. Foothill Blvd.
ARPA: dual!epicen!jbuck@BERKELEY.ARPA   |  Cupertino, CA 95014