Re: Not exactly a phoenix - xmca arises

Sandra L. Longworth (sllongwo who-is-at students.wisc.edu)
Mon, 05 Jul 1999 07:56:31 -0500

Hi,

I'm not sure how I got on this list, but I haven't ever heard of xmca.
Could you take me off the list please?

Thanks very much.

At 04:30 PM 7/4/99 -0700, you wrote:
>
>For reasons yet to be determined, the distribution list for xmca
>was seriously truncated on or about last Wednesday (probably a
>result of my duelling with the TWU-induced gremlins). The
>shortened nature of things was discovered this morning.
>
>In an effort to get the list back up and running in any sort of
>useful fashion, I grepped a list of folks who had posted to xmca
>over the past three months from the log files and re-created an
>abbreviated distribution list (after culling those who had unsbscribed)
>
>The current dist list is about 1/2 the length of the list prior to
>this recent spate of difficulties. However it probably contains
>most, if not all of the folks who create the dialog online. The
>lurkers, who will be added back when we can recover a copy of the
>list from backup tapes (sometime Tues, in all probability) will just
>have to catch up from the xmca web archives.
>
>If you were unsubscribed, and I failed to pull you from my new
>list, just dump this in the bit bucket. You'll come back off the
>list when I replace this dist list with the backup, Tues.
>
>mea culpa, and my apologies,
>
>bj
>
>p.s. This also means that anything you thought you posted after
>Wed last, probably didn't go out. You can check the web archives to
>see, as that account disappeared along with everyone elses, so the
>archive represents the true state of what was distributed.
>
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