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|    Michael Dukelsky to Dallas Hinton    |
|    A widow file    |
|    04 Jul 20 15:00:34    |
      REPLY: 1:153/7715.0 eff76520       MSGID: 2:5020/1042 5f006f87       CHRS: CP866 2       TZUTC: 0300       TID: hpt/lnx 1.9.0-cur 21-02-18       Hello Dallas,              Friday July 03 2020, Dallas Hinton wrote to Michael Dukelsky:               MD>> In Fidonet, we have flow files referring to echomail and ticket        MD>> files (.TIC) referring to fileecho files. If some echomail file        MD>> has lost the flow file referring to it, or a fileecho file has        MD>> lost the .TIC referring to it, may I call it a widow file (or        MD>> maybe an orphan one)?               DH> I've never heard them called that, but I don't see why not. I'd        DH> personally call those files "orphans" rather than widows, but I'm not        DH> sure why!              Thank you.              Michael              ... node (at) f1042 (dot) ru       --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20170303        * Origin: Moscow, Russia (2:5020/1042)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 50/109 90/1 120/340 601 123/131 203/0 221/0 1 6 360       SEEN-BY: 226/30 227/114 702 229/101 424 426 664 1014 240/1120 1634       SEEN-BY: 240/1895 2100 5138 5832 5853 8001 8002 8005 249/206 317 250/25       SEEN-BY: 261/38 280/5003 5006 313/41 317/3 320/219 322/757 335/364       SEEN-BY: 342/200 382/147 423/81 450/1024 463/68 467/888 2454/119 4500/1       SEEN-BY: 5000/111 5001/100 5005/49 5015/42 46 5019/40 5020/830 846       SEEN-BY: 5020/1042 2047 2140 4441 5053/51 5054/8 5064/54 56 5075/128       SEEN-BY: 5080/68 102 5083/1 444       PATH: 5020/1042 221/6 1 280/5003 240/1120 5832 229/426           |
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