RN> Even though   
   RN> most of the naysaying, anti D'Bridge troublemakers have faded into the   
   RN> past, there are still a few around who want to cause trouble for 2   
   RN> reasons.  1) they can, and 2) they don't have an inkling of what D'Bridge   
   RN> is about.   
       
   I find this a perfectly valid analyses.   
       
   I think I got my license KEE in 1988 ... Eewwhhhh ... I'm in my 29th DB-year.   
       
   Back in those days there was a pre-configured setting that made a rescan the   
   first time someone linked-in to an echo but due to some bug it also mirrored   
   the complete content of that or these echo[es] back up the path with a fresh   
   header and everything.   
       
   So you knew a new D'Bridge-customer had popped-up when massive rescans of   
   echoes were posted. This could be avoided and people with a brain were not   
   affected.   
       
   In those days the usage of D'BROKE or D'BUG became fashionable. The problem   
   was fixed, the myth persisted, especially among Frontdoor-users. JoHo had   
   assembled a fanclub and I remember a Eurocon where he had a group of followers   
   that were on his trail all the time as if he were a guru of some kind. So when   
   he mentioned D'BUG, they all started doing that. He stopped doing that when I   
   had a private talk with him July 2nd 1995.   
       
    \%/@rd   
      
   --- D'Bridge 3.99   
    * Origin: Many Glacier -- Protect - Preserve - Conserve (2:292/854)