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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!eur.nl!biloggen
- From: biloggen@cs.few.eur.nl (R.P. Loggen)
- Subject: Re: Strange file in users' mail directories
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.134904.15453@cs.few.eur.nl>
- Sender: news@cs.few.eur.nl
- Organization: Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam
- References: <bwen.726018259@cunews>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 13:49:04 GMT
- Lines: 24
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- bwen@alfred.carleton.ca (Bing Wen ~{NB1y~}) writes:
-
- >A friend of mine has recently discovered that in the mail directory of
- >his LAN account there is a 2-byte file that updates itself each time
- >he logs in and comes back after he deletes it. The file contains only
- >one Vertical Tabulation symbol (decimal 11, Hex 0B). He asked a few
- >other LAN users and they all found the same file in their mail
- >directories. They suspect that their mail is monitored by the LAN
- >supervisor. Is it possible?
-
- >Replies will be appreciated.
-
- Some newsreaders keep a file in the mail-directory in which
- it registrates when you last read news. With this file it
- then can determine if you already read news of a specific date.
- In that case it can only show you the latest news.
-
- Roeland
-
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