From: Mike Godwin <mnemonic@eff.org>
To: mg5n+@andrew.cmu.edu (Matthew J Ghio)
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Raw Date: Tue, 5 Oct 93 15:00:07 PDT
From: Mike Godwin <mnemonic@eff.org>
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 93 15:00:07 PDT
To: mg5n+@andrew.cmu.edu (Matthew J Ghio)
Subject: Re: criminal gif upload
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> ha ha. Seriously tho, just posting a list of MS-DOS filenames is rather
> useless as filenames do get changed. It is highly likely that a sysop
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> or user might have changed the filenames to something else, especially
> if their operating system supported filenames longer than 8 characters.
I'm interested in the source of that probability calculation. In
my experience, sysops dealing with a large volume of files normally
don't bother to change the names of a few of them, unless they see a
compelling reason to do so.
--Mike
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