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Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 08:36:43 -0500
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From: Paul Derbyshire <pderbysh AT usa DOT net>
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At 07:19 AM 2/28/99 -0500, you wrote:
>At 11:53 PM 2/25/99 +0100, I wrote:
>
>>.PHONY : configure all install clean uninstall test
>
>But what I got back from the pgcc listserv was:
>
>>..PHONY : configure all install clean uninstall test
> ^^
>
>Hey, what the heck is up with the listserver? It's inserting spurious
>characters in some of the emails it processes.

I half-expected it to mung this message, thereby obfuscating my meaning,
perhaps by inserting a spurious '.' on the "before" line of my "before and
after" comparison and thus making them identical. Fortunately, it did not...
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