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Subject: Re: [M]: {M} OT- Time to pay the Piper
From: Bill Arnett
Reply To: mapug@shore.net
Date: Fri Jun 20 00:40:39 1997

At 3:55 PM -0700 6/18/97, Paul Laughton wrote:
>An interesting message was posted in the usnet LX200 group.
>-------------------------------------
>>From - Wed Jun 18 22:49:12 1997
>Path:news.bayarea.net!wetware!news.tbcnet.com!news.structured.net!arc
>light. uoregon.edu!newsm.ibm.net!ibm.net!news.prtc.net!news
>From:Piper<I@m.tough>
>Newsgroups: alt.telescopes.meade.lx200
>Subject:TIME TO PAY THE PIPER!!
>Date: 15 Jun 1997 21:24:21 GMT
>Organization: Potamania
>Lines: 42
>Message-ID: <5o1mi5$dsg4223@news.prtc.net>
> NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.146.68.162
>Xref: news.bayarea.net
>alt.telescopes.meade.lx200:9586
>
>
>THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE RECEIVED MY MAIL KNOW WHAT I MEAN. THOSE THAT
>HAVEN'T, CONSIDER YOURSELVES LUCKY. GET READY TO PAY.
>
>
> PIPER

First, I don't understand the above message. Who is "Piper" and what is he
trying to say?
Second, is this mailing list being mirrored onto the newsgroup again or has
the newsgroup taken on a life of its own?

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"I know that I am mortal and the creature of a day; but when I search
out the massed wheeling circles of the stars, my feet no longer touch
the earth, but, side by side with Zeus himself, I take my fill of
ambrosia, the food of the gods." -- Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy)



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