# Who is "reg | guest"? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [February 10, 2001, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-reg-guest/53942 "2001-02-10T20:24:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sulawesi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@sulawesi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sulawesi)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2001, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-reg-guest/53942/1 "2001-02-10T20:24:33Z")
When I read old (before the software switch) threads, many posts are cut off in mid-phrase and the post below, always blank, is attributed to **reg**. Why does this happen? ---
**Author:** ![spark\_applied\_to\_powder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@spark\_applied\_to\_powder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spark_applied_to_powder)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2001, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-reg-guest/53942/2 "2001-02-10T23:33:37Z")
Might you have a link? (I’ve been to a lot of old threads, but don’t recall that, or I’d try a random search.) ---
**Author:** ![sulawesi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@sulawesi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sulawesi)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2001, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-reg-guest/53942/3 "2001-02-11T02:34:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by spark applied to powder \* > \*\*Might you have a link? (I’ve been to a lot of old threads, but don’t recall that, or I’d try a random search.) \*\* [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=19203](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=19203) ---
**Author:** ![tshirts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@tshirts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tshirts)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2001, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-reg-guest/53942/4 "2001-02-11T06:08:05Z")
That’s quite an anomaly. I had feared it was just connected with previously discussed conversion bugs, but it looks novel. This isn’t one of the classic “scrambled” threads, since all the times are in order. Since the times for our mystery poster **reg** are identically the same as the long post before it, it’s likely an artifact of conversion, based on a buffer overflow. I especially liked the part where there is a no-name poster between **Arnold Winkelried** and **reg** at 03-04-2000 09:05 AM. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2001, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-reg-guest/53942/5 "2001-02-11T15:44:24Z")
We rarely visit old threads like that so I do not doubt that there’s all sorts of little weirdnesses like that scattered throughout our archives. Harmless, meaningless, maybe a little irritating, at most. your humble TubaDiva Administrator