On 2019 Jul 11 07:08:28, you wrote to Dale Shipp:

 DS>> It is interesting that the message that Dave responded to never
 DS>> reached me nor Doc's Place.  I also note that your uplink (Nick) sent
 DS>> this message to Belgium (Ward), and from there to Finland, Australia,
 DS>> Australia and finally to the USA (Janis) before coming to me.  Do you
 DS>> know if the message Dave responded to ever left your BBS?  I think
 DS>> that he is known to visit there, as well as many other places.

 DD> I just went back and looked at Doc's and the header said:

 DD> From:    DAVE DRUM            Number:     57023
 DD> To:    SHAWN HIGHFIELD      Date:     7/10/2019 11:35 AM
 DD> Subject: Unable to eat meat.  Reference:  None
 DD> Read:    No                   Private:    No
 DD> Conference: COOKING           Attachment: None

the one before that... the first one of those you responded to... i don't find
it here on my point system and it should be getting everything... even any
dupes that come through...

 DD> It also has appeared at Janis' Prism, Outpost and Waldo's/SESTAR.

the above one arrived here but not the first one of shawn's you replied to...

)\/(ark

And to this end they built themselves a stupendous super-computer which was
so amazingly intelligent that even before its data banks had been connected
up it had started from "I think therefore I am" and got as far as deducing
the existence of rice pudding and income tax before anyone managed to turn
it off.
... Adam's rib became the original bone of contention.
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