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From: Gumby@MCC.COM (David Vinayak Wallace)
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Subject: protected mailing lists?
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Date: 6 Feb 89 18:20:00 GMT
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    Date: Mon, 6 Feb 89 08:41 EST
    From: Jerry Roylance <glr@wheaties.ai.mit.edu>

	Date: Sun, 5 Feb 89 21:55:20 EST
	From: gumby@wheaties.ai.mit.edu (David Vinayak Wallace)

	Is there any good reason /com/mailer/noneai and nanotech are
	protected?  I want to remove myself but can't.

    No good reason.  I think the protection gets altered when paranoid
    people (those who set up their environment to prohibit group access by
    default) edit the mailing list files.

Emacs, at least, should try to preserve the protection then when it
writes a later version of an existing file, rather than using umask.