[Info-vax] [OT] Old posts, was: Re: MicroVax II for sale -- cheap!

[Simon Clubley]

On 2014-02-03, Paul Sture <nospam at sture.ch> wrote:
> abrsvc wrote:
>
>> On Sunday, February 2, 2014 7:19:17 PM UTC-5, BryanBentz wrote:
>>> I just tried to post a reply, not sure it happened due to login fuss.  If this hasn't gone I might be interested; I could arrange for a shipper to pick it up.  Please let me know; perhaps the best way is a direct email to me at bentz at bentz-engineering.com.
>>
>> I'm not sure how you got the reference for this posting, but it is almost 10 years old.  I doubt the unit is still available...
>
> There's a whiff of someone testing a spam tool with these answers to old
> postings.
>
> Both the post you answered to and the one 20 minutes earlier "RE:
> splitting a PDF file" from "Abigail111" bear PST time stamps and a blank
> X-UserIpAddress field.
>

Overnight, comp.unix.solaris was hit with a series of replies to old
posts but other newsgroups I read (such as comp.arch.embedded or
comp.lang.ada) have not been affected.

(And comp.arch.embedded certainly gets it's share of "Hi! I'm a brain
surgeon. How do I use a scalpel ?" type questions from time to time.)

I wonder if someone has outsourced a operation somewhere and the
outsourcing organisation is now learning how to actually manage the
equipment in question.

Simon.

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