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To: Request-for-Comments-List:;
Subject: RFC1211 on Problems with Mailing Lists
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 91 15:12:08 PST
From: "Joyce K. Reynolds" <[log in to unmask]>
 
 
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       RFC 1211:
 
        Title:      Problems with the Maintenance of Large Mailing Lists
               Author:     A. Westine and J. Postel
       Mailbox:    [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask]
       Pages:      54
       Characters: 96,167
       Updates/Obsoletes:  none
 
               pathname: RFC:RFC1211.TXT
 
 
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Joyce K. Reynolds
USC/Information Sciences Institute