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By Jody Kravitz

I have made a minor change in the way the digest software works on
foxtail.  Most of you will not notice or care about this change but
the change deserves explanation for those who are interested.  Inspection
of the e-mail header of prior digests would show that I actually mail
the digests to a fictitous account on foxtail called "roll-forward".
This distinction allowed me to edit the incoming mailbox for "automatic-music"
into an indexed digest and remail it.  One of you actually noticed this
anomoly and asked about it because it was confusing.  More recently Philip
Jamison stumbled upon an unintended feature -- if any of you sent mail to
"roll-forward" the mail was sent to everyone without my getting to edit it
into the digest.  That is why everyone received a "non-digest" copy of his
message asking about my program that converts a MIDI file to a printed
perforation template.

It turns out that many of your mailers would have generated mail to
"roll-forward" if you entered the 'reply' command to your mailer while
reading this digest.  In order to correct this bug, I've fixed it so
that all future digests will appear to have been mailed to "automatic-music".
To avoid bouncing mail sent in reply to older digest messages, mail sent
to the fictitous account "roll-forward" will be handled as digest input,
although I'd like to discourage its intentional use in new mail.  Continue
to send messages to:

	automatic-music@foxtail.com

Thanks

Jody



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