[techwr-l] ADMIN: Administrivia Reminder

["Eric J. Ray" <ejray -at- raycomm -dot- com>]

Please file this away--any instructions that refer to okstate.edu
within them are no longer valid. 

Thanks!
Eric


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Revised 29 August 1999


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