Cheer up, Tony. You did it once, you say. Some regular list members make
many valuable postings yet _never_ -- in some cases as a point of
principle -- ever delete a single character from previous postings. It
is quite common to see postings ending with multiple copies of 
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Of course, if you read postings from the top you can, and should,
usually bail out before seeing such ejunk. 
Nick 
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Lachenbruch, Peter
The one huge drawback is hitting reply to the digest mail.  That would,
if I understand correctly, have the entire days submissions as part of
the "RE:" transmission.  I think I may have done this once and felt
red-faced. 
[big snip] 
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