Someone care to explain this pattern to me ... ?

[Marc G. Fournier]

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- From reading the man page, the @* at the start should negate everything else, 
no?  But I'm definitely both sending, and receiving, news ... so is the @* at 
the start actually *doing* anything?

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Marc G. Fournier           Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)
Email . scrappy at hub.org                              MSN . scrappy at hub.org
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