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Re: what do these MOW vehicles do?
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Date: 
Thu, 24 Feb 2000 23:48:38 GMT
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Frank Filz wrote:
> 
> Larry Pieniazek wrote in message <38B45798.EA057F62@voyager.net>...
> > Frank Filz wrote:
> > 
> > > Darn larry, you're hard to beat sometimes... but I came through with a
> > > workable URL quicker...
> > 
> > ??
> > 
> > I believe my second post in reply to bendy's is timestamped one minute
> > ahead of yours... which is why it sorts in front. We both found the same
> > rental equipment page.
> 
> Ah, but you notice the message numbers. Remember that the time stamp comes
> from your machine.

Yes, anyone can forge time, but message numbers are something I choose
not to reveal whether I can mainipulate or not.

> The other day when I posted a "fixed" post to one of the
> broken references posts, I had copied my intended post complete with
> timestamp and e-mailed it to work. The next day, I telneted into Lugnet's
> news server and manually submitted the post, which then showed up with the
> time stamp from the night before. Of course a regular example is Jonathan
> Wilson's posts. He must have his timezone set to GMT or something, he's
> always posting way into the future.
> 
> It is interesting that we both found the same rental page. How did you find
> it? I used Alta Vista and it was the 2nd entry which looked promising (I
> also posted the 1st entry, and left it in the post because it looked real
> interesting also).

I used Alta Vista too. Same result. The reason you beat me was because I
wasted time going to Yahoo and I came up dry.

--
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Larry Pieniazek wrote in message <38B5C356.DF99E607@v...er.net>... (...) find (...) I occasionally poke around on Yahoo, but I seem to get much better hits with Alta Vista. It does help to have a general understanding of how the keyword searches (...) (27 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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Larry Pieniazek wrote in message <38B45798.EA057F62@v...er.net>... (...) Ah, but you notice the message numbers. Remember that the time stamp comes from your machine. The other day when I posted a "fixed" post to one of the broken references posts, (...) (27 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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