LIST BUG: Message locks up netscape.

From: Michael Lorrey (mike@datamann.com)
Date: Mon Jan 22 2001 - 10:08:32 MST


The following message came in that locked up my netscape mail reader,
which I had to delete off of our linux server by hand so as to receive
the rest of my mail, there were three such bad messages, all through the
extropians list. Any help figuring this out is appreciated:
Bad message as follows:

eturn-Path: <owner-extropians@extropy.org>
Received: from mqueue0.sover.net (mqueue0.sover.net [209.198.87.52])
com>; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 00:04:31 -0500
0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f0M55Sj20862
 majordom@localhost)
 Jan 2001 21:09:24 -0700
ns@extropy.org using -f
0800
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nswer to the new puzzle
73f@jrmolloy><3A6A92E2.2030C978@attglobal.net>
<3.0.6.16.20010121123e92740$acbc4@pop.uniserve.com>
<009701c083ee$178940e0$5eb35e0c@flrjs>
<3A6B70FD.90E99543@attascii
e: bulk
s wrote: > John, it isnt Henry Paperclip, but the inventor
> was in
> > the 19th century and was French. spike
>
> "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" wrote: That's giving away *far* too much
> information, Spike.
>
> Louis Braille.

Well Ill be damned. Altho this wasnt the name I was thinking,
it is a better answer than mine, so I will call and end to it. Eliezer,

you are too good at this.

I was looking for an invention that contained and immortalized
the name of the inventor. Really good examples of this would be
Bunsen burner, Dewar, Biro, Diesel, Rubik's cube, Crapper, Pasteur,
annnnnndddd...

the one I was thinking is below:



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