Re: The IETF_Censored mailing list

[Lloyd Wood <[e-mail]>]

On Sun, 1 Jun 2003, Tim Chown wrote:

> How timely...

The unsubscribe instructions given below are incomplete. (Still
working on finding the correct ones.)

And you'll still get to listen to Atkielski and Anderson.

L.

> On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 03:03:01AM +0200, Super-User wrote:
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