-={ Saturday, 11 June 2016, 18:49:09 -0400 }=-   
      
   Hey mark!   
      
    ml> it is possible to have an echo with private messages in it as long   
    ml> as the users are aware that every sysop can still read those   
    ml> messages ;)   
      
   As well as everyone else in a distribution system.  Same with email way back   
   when the earth's crust was still cooling although that was tough to prove.    
   Regardless, anytime I was told it was private I never, ever believed it.  I   
   can think of too many examples where people knew things they couldn't have   
   known unless they read it or the intended audience told them.   
      
   No big deal as far as I am personally concerned as I always prefer everything   
   posted is out in the open and have always assumed it potentially would be,   
   even email.   
      
   As for the message I quoted I doubt the user even knew the so-called 'private'   
   bit was turned on and if he did he was being extremely naive.  Heck even over   
   two decades later there it is again.   
      
   BTW I counted 2137 linefeeds in E6614010.PKT.  Tsk, tsk.   
      
   Life is good,   
   Maurice   
      
   ... Don't cry for me I have vi.   
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