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From: Gordon Fisher <>
Subject: Re: Can not get messages from archive
Date: Sat, 01 Nov 1997 13:02:03


At 08:50 AM 11/1/97 -0800, Marcellia E. Kretzer wrote:
>Would like to know what is so senitive about messages in the archive. Is
this a private club? I thought is was for people looking up genealogy and
finding their ancestors. All I get is File Messags not available N,. B.
File names are case sensitive. Would like to know what is the problem.
>Marcie Kretzer
>Kretzer@ lightspeed.net
>
>
>

The term "case sensitive" means that upper case (capital) letters are not
treated the same as lower case letters. Thus if you ask for something with
the subject line

re: William the Conqueror

you will not be able to retrieve a message whose subject lines is

Re: William the Conqueror

because you used a lower case r instead of an upper case R in your query.

Gordon Fisher

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