Cypherpunks Bottleneck [was Cypherpunks & Ecash]

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At 05:04 PM 3/21/97 -0800, you wrote:
|[Hmmmhhhh...after noticing that a message I sent off this morning at 9 had
|not gone out as of late this afternoon, I looked to see if other messages
|I've sent off have gone out. I found that a message I sent out last night,
|23 hours ago, has not arrived at my site, nor have I seen any followups by
|others to it. So I am sending it again. I will go back through my messages
|and look for other such non-sends. I suggest others do the same. I don't
|know what the problem is, but it's worse in this respect than the problems
|with toad.com.]
|

Tim:

Last Thursday night I got word of Perry's shut down from the PGP Users List;
I had
not seen it posted during the day so I forwarded it to the cypherpunks list.

It showed up at my location 5 minutes ago.

I have the consolation of knowing mine was not the only one delayed.

I seem to have noticed messages being repeated this afternoon.

Alec
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Alec wrote:
> At 05:04 PM 3/21/97 -0800, you wrote:
> |[Hmmmhhhh...after noticing that a message I sent off this morning at 9 had
> |not gone out as of late this afternoon I will go back through my messages
> |and look for other such non-sends. I suggest others do the same. I don't
> |know what the problem is, but it's worse in this respect than the problems
> |with toad.com.]
> |
> 
> Tim:
> Last Thursday night I got word of Perry's shut down from the PGP Users List;
> I had
> not seen it posted during the day so I forwarded it to the cypherpunks list.
> It showed up at my location 5 minutes ago.

  I emailed the majordomo and it sent back a message saying, "I am not
a Bot."
It also added that from now on, it prefers to be addressed as 
'Major Domo', with proper respect for its rank.

  The situation is worse than I thought. Not only are the humans on the
list being replaced by Bots, but the Bots seem to be evolving and/or
mutating to emulate human characteristics.
  Also, I recently received a reply from a Bot that had an English 
accent and said it was having a "Baaaad day". I could smell wet wool,
too. I would suggest keeping an eye out for headers that contain the
words "Sender: toad.clone".

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