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From: Brian Buchanan <brian@wasteland.calbbs.com>
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On Fri, 7 Feb 1997, Jonathan Lemon wrote:

> 
> Uh, why was -hackers just subscribed to -security?
> > 
> > Welcome to the freebsd-security mailing list!
> > 

Looks to me like someone unfamiliar with majordomo tried to subscribe to 
multiple lists with one subscribe command, i.e.,
`subscribe freebsd-security freebsd-hackers', which majordomo would have 
interpreted as "subscribe the email address `freebsd-hackers' to list 
`freebsd-security'."

Brian