Subj : this packet f'd my s--- up To : Al From : apam Date : Sun Oct 24 2021 03:31 pm > pktinfo tells me that the fromusername field is empty so the message > header is wrong. It is a corrupt packet. It looks like the packet was written correctly, then re-written over two bytes off. the Packet header ends 02 00 which should be (00 00) then is followed by 02 00 which is the start of the packed message header. Then each field is also offset by 2 bytes... It looks like it's to David Smit? (I guess david smith) so the TO field should look like David Smith but instead looks like DaDavid Smit The from looks like DaDaryl Stou When it should be Daryl Stout And so on... So while mystic should discard that packet as you say, more concerning is whatever the hub is running causing packets like that? The message is FROM a synchronet system, but I suspect it's not synchronet to blame but whatever is in between. Andrew -- |03Andrew Pamment |08(|11apam|08) |13Happy|10Land |14v2.0|08!|07 --- Talisman v0.27-dev (Windows/x64) * Origin: The Grinning Cat >^.^< (21:1/182.1) .