Help! I correctly (i believe) subscribed recently,
entered my return mail as "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" --this
reaches me as "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", and, as far as I
can tell, have replied "g"lobally or to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Why this autoresponse?
--gdk
On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 09:04:18AM +0000, autoresponse:help hints for
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