Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 09:13:40 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>,<wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Garbage in email, was [WSFA] Re: Crafty math
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

>
>>>> kfl at KeithLynch.net 1/4/2007 10:32:10 PM >>>
>> Trust Mike W to come up with a good yarn.
>
>I'm pleased to see you're posting on the WSFA list again.  We've
>missed you.
>
>However, something went wrong with your one-line posting.  Over a
>hundred lines of garbage, such as
>
>  BF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzE2NDkwNjg1BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwN
>TAzNDgyNwRtc2dJZAMxNjU0
>
>were appended.  If possible, please figure out how this happened, so
>that it doesn't occur again.  Thanks.
>
>It happened a second time today, with the other message you
>posted.

I think it's dust bunnies in the Internet tubes...

Lee's response that I saw did not have the garbage.

Candy's response to Lee did contain the garbage, but only as if it were
quoting the garbage.

Some of the Real Words in the garbage were:

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So... it is it some delightful Yahoo thing?  Are the Chinese censors
leaving their mark?

mjw