On Sun, 8 Aug 1999, Nathan Brindle wrote:

> That's dangerous.  In some cases you might delete someone you didn't
> intend to delete with that construction.  I admit we're probably talking
> extreme cases, but the fact remains that a delete for joe@*soft.com would
> not only delete [log in to unmask] and [log in to unmask], but also [log in to unmask],
> [log in to unmask], et cetera ad nauseum...when you do that sort of wildcard
> delete you might want to try it with the (TEST option first.

        Thanks, I was going to sugest that you confirm who you are
deleting before using ANY wild card setting.  I haven't done that myself,
so I don't know what the results are, but you will ``destroy'' settings if
you delete, and recreate a user, so it's worth testing first...

                                                        Jessica

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