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From: doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Welcome to comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Message-ID: <638@xdos.UUCP>
Date: 1 Feb 90 15:15:20 GMT
References: <161.filbo@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us>
Reply-To: doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt)
Organization: Hunter Systems, Mountain View CA (Silicon Valley)
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In article <161.filbo@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us> filbo@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us (Bela Lubkin) writes:
>this?  I don't need 100 messages about it, so use some randomization
>device to decide whether to mail me, with about a 10% probability...)

You'll probably get either 100 messages or none at all! I suppose
you could try "run the date command; if the final digit of the seconds
equals 7, send me a message".

Just being creative...getting too many or too few messages is a common
problem.
	Doug
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Doug Merritt		{pyramid,apple}!xdos!doug
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