[net.news] Line Eater!

allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) (11/24/85)

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

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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.

So, if you buy third party hard disks, make sure it works on the new layout.

I will put up more news as I find out about it.  I will have some kind of
comment from Kamerman Labs in a few days.
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jbuck@epicen.UUCP (Joe Buck) (11/26/85)

> 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
> 
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> 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.
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Joe Buck				|  Entropic Processing, Inc.
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