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echo: tech
to: Roy J. Tellason
from: Leonard Erickson
date: 2003-06-06 06:33:12
subject: what would you do?

-=> Quoting Roy J. Tellason to Jasen Betts <=-

 RJT> Jasen Betts wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:
 
 JB> Hi Roy.
 
 JB> 03-Jun-03 04:05:56, Roy J. Tellason wrote to Jasen Betts
 
 JB>> pop3 [...]
 
 RJT> I'm not doing that,  I'm doing UUCP,  by way of a friend who
 RJT> happens to run unix at home.
 
 JB> bummer...
 JB> can you log into a shell account and kill the file manually? 

 RJT> Nope,  I asked him about that,  last time around.  I used to have a
 RJT> shell account on that box,  but that was some number of upgrades ago. 
 RJT> And he said something about not being real sure where the file *was*, 
 RJT> which struck me as kinda odd.  (No /var/spool?) 

The problem is that there may be huindreds or thousands of files in the
directory in question. and they may be compressed. so searching for the
particulart problem file will be a major hassle. 

I've gone thru that in *my* spool directory trying to sort out files
that I wanted from "junk" that was cluttering things up. 

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