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Subject:Re: ADMIN: I Screwed Up; I'm Sorry From:Matt Ion <soundy -at- NEXTLEVEL -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 20 Mar 1997 13:00:58 -0800
On Thu, 20 Mar 1997 08:18:20 -0700, Eric J. Ray 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.
Egads. Sounds like that TV commercial for some sort of headache pills
(Advil, Tylenol, something like that)... the woman sitting in front of
the monitor, late at night, massaging her temples... she leans on the
keyboard... the message appears: "DELETING ALL FILES ON HARD DISK" as
windows close - blip! blip! blip! - and the machine shuts down... =)
Your friend and mine,
Matt
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