Neumann@CSL.SRI.COM (Peter G. Neumann) (11/08/86)
**** HELP! RISKS-4.7 NEVER MADE IT. ****
DUE TO AN INCREDIBLE COMBINATION OF PROBLEMS, all of the contributions for
RISKS-4.7 were lost -- the original messages, and the edited issue, and
various backups; what is worse, an intermediate buffer load got substituted
for the real thing. This all got triggered because of a mysterious BBOARD
TABLE OVERFLOW in the middle of my RISKS MACROS. I had to log out to clear
up the resulting mess, and lost the last vestige of nonexpunged files and
EMACS kill rings -- not realizing that my master copy of RISKS-4.7 had been
corrupted. Sorry. There were some fine contributions, and I am mightily
annoyed that my careful controls failed me -- especially since I had to do
an unusually large amount of work on this issue.
**** CONTRIBUTORS PLEASE RESUBMIT IF YOU CAN. ****
**** HELP! Let's see if we can reconstruct it. ****
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