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Subject:Re: ADMIN: I Screwed Up; I'm Sorry From:Mitch Berg <mberg -at- IS -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 20 Mar 1997 12:17:41 -0600
Wayne J. Douglass wrote:
>
> 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.
This'd be a neat topic for the Usability Testing list...
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