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Re: Favorite error messages

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From: pea... Kirk Pearson
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 1990 06:07
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I got the following error from good `ol 'rn'.

I like to scan article titles in a group with '=' before I go into the group.
One time I got overzealous and tried to save an article from the listing of
headers and got:

           Saving null articles is not very productive! :-)

I guess that makes :-) an official punctuation mark :-)


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From: pea...@handel.CS.ColoState.Edu (Kirk Pearson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Favorite error messages
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Date: 26 Sep 90 06:07:08 GMT
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