Re: well, that takes care of that!

From: Sysop John (MarchHare@momeraths.org)
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 17:44:49 -0400

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On Fri, 10 Jul 1998 06:24:40 -0400, jcperez1@ix.netcom.com (Julio C. Perez) wrote:
> I've just violated one of the basic principles of troubleshooting
>and paid the price! Instead of first backing up the inbox file, I started
>to save the old msgs to folders. When these were purged from the file, the
>file size was reduced to zero. Not only were the old msgs purged but all
>the new ones (the ones which never appeared on the list but were in the file).
>I hope that a significant amount of junk mail was lost along with the
>important stuff!!!

Ouch! Well, that sort of confirms that it was corrupted, anyhow, since
that is obviously not the normal behavior.

John
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