what's wrong with SEELANGS?

[Prof Steven P Hill]

Dear colleagues :

I received this message (twice):

Date: Mon 30 Oct 16:48:43 CST 2006
From: "CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK/CIS LISTSERV Server (14.5)" 
<LISTSERV at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>  
Subject: Message ("Your search request did not contain any valid...") 
To: Steven Hill <S-HILL4 at UIUC.EDU> 

Your search request did not contain  any valid message index number. You may
want to try the LISTSERV database functions instead; send an "INFO DATABASE"
command for more information.
[end quote]
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when I clicked "REPLY" to request the display of the day's messages, which were 
indexed like this:

Date: Mon 30 Oct 14:54:02 CST 2006
From: SEELANGS automatic digest system <LISTSERV at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU> Add To 
Address Book 
Subject: SEELANGS Index - 27 Oct 2006 to 30 Oct 2006 - Special issue (#2006-365) 
To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU 

Index  Date  Size Poster and subject
-----  ----  ---- ------------------
026664 10/28  122 From:    Elena Gapova <e.gapova at WORLDNET.ATT.NET>
                  Subject: Question re Hatyn'
026665 10/28   20 From:    goscilo <goscilo+ at PITT.EDU>
                  Subject: outing the enc and blagodarnost'
026666 10/29   86 From:    Joshua  Adetunji <jta3 at UALBERTA.CA>
                  Subject: Catherine the Great and Important Quote
026667 10/29  151 From:    Sergey Glebov <sglebov at SMITH.EDU>
                  Subject: Ab Imperio annual program in 2007 - call for papers
026668 10/30   17 From:    Inna Caron <caron.4 at OSU.EDU>
                  Subject: looking for A.N. Tolstoy in English
026669 10/30   52 From:    Kelly Elizabeth Miller <kem4h at VIRGINIA.EDU>
                  Subject: Exhibition Opening Soon! “The Firebird and t he
                           Factory: Modern Russian Children’s Books”
026671 10/30   18 From:    Inna Caron <caron.4 at OSU.EDU>
                  Subject: looking for A.N. Tolstoy in English
026672 10/30   80 From:    John Dingley <jdingley at YORKU.CA>
                  Subject: Re: Question re Hatyn'
026673 10/30   82 From:    A Smith <Alexandra.Smith at SHEFFIELD.AC.UK>
                  Subject: Call for papers: Humour and satire in Hungarian and
                           Slavonic culture.
026674 10/30   41 From:    Alina Israeli <aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU>
                  Subject: Re: Question re Hatyn'
026675 10/30   32 From:    Tatyana Buzina <tbuzina at YANDEX.RU>
                  Subject: Re: Question re Hatyn'
The sizes  shown are the  number of lines  in the messages,  not counting
mail headers.
To order the messages you are interested in, simply reply to this message
and include the original text, just as  when you are replying to a normal
message and  want to quote  what your correspondent said.  Before sending
the message,  delete the  lines corresponding  to the  items you  are not
interested   in,    and   make    sure   your    reply   is    going   to
SEELANGS-Search-request at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU,        and       not        to
SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
[end quote].

What happened?  -- Steven P Hill, U of IL.
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