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Subject:Re: ADMIN: I Screwed Up; I'm Sorry From:"Wayne J. Douglass" <wayned -at- VERITY -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 20 Mar 1997 09:57:06 -0800
At 08:18 AM 3/20/97 -0700, our esteemed listowner wrote:
>PS, how'd I do it? I left extraneous text at the bottom
>of a command to the listserv and the listserv
>interpreted the text as an additional command that
>the contents of the list should be removed.
>
This is Murphy with a vengeance. Was it the specific string or would
*anything* have been interpreted as a command to remove the contents of the
list? Inquiring minds want to know.
--Wayne Douglass
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