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From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe AT bevo DOT che DOT wisc DOT edu>
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Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 12:47:49 -0500
To: Cygwin List <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: once more unto the breech - still hanging, but I have a little more info.
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| >   You just dumped 5 meg of useless spam into the inboxes of several  
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Sorry to waste additional bandwith with this potentially obvious
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jwe

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