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Chris Barnes <[log in to unmask]>
F. J. Kelley wrote:
> Back to Bitnet days ... the lists just ended up with "-L" (SAS-L)

Yes.  It was added to the end of list so that people would be able to
recognize that the email address was a list, not an individual.  Recall
that back then, alot of people had email addresses which looked like

X041CB@TAMVM1   (oh my, I can't believe I remembered that).


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