O-T ... This is off topic and weird .....

[Potomac Yank]

I luved every single one of your answers.

Please permit me to add, I'm from the era close to when one would turn the crank handle on the public phone, and ask the operator for the party line.

I may know a few things about cards, and I'm still learning, but I'm challenged in many other areas ... especially the technical ones.

As for the outage theory ... I would go with that BUT, I've had outages before, and it would sometimes erase the message ... no default message.

Er, uh ... maybe I should fill in the hijacked message, and maybe that'll help.

The message:

"On January 20th, we got rid of the disaster from Crawford, Texas ... now let's get rid of the surveyors." ...

Therefore ..... Elimentary Dr Watson, I'm leaning towards the Great Wake's theory #3 ..... The default pin non appreciator of the message.

I didn't know that could be done, and somehow I feel that's crossing the legal line somwhat? ... What say you?

Thanks again, I loved your takes, and you didn't disappoint me.