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Entire database of newsletter subscribers were deleted!

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Entire database of newsletter subscribers were deleted!
I had over 300 subscribers in my newsletter database.
I typed in my newsletter, selected "debug mode" and clicked "Send Newsletter".
ALL the subscribers in the database were deleted!
How did this happen?
It was the first time I had run the script so I had no backup. Now I have to re-enter all the email addresses!
The only modification I made was to make the "Name" field unrequired because I had a list of email addresses & didn't know everyone's names.
Could this have made the script delete all the names in the database: because it was a list of email addresses and no names?
If I modified it so that the name field was hidden and had the value of "my newsletter" would that solve the problem, if that, indeed, was the problem?
PLEASE HELP!
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Thread Entire database of newsletter subscribers were deleted! purpleglitter 3945 Feb 26, 2004, 12:16 PM
Thread Re: [purpleglitter] Entire database of newsletter subscribers were deleted!
Stealth 3854 Feb 26, 2004, 9:46 PM
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purpleglitter 3874 Feb 27, 2004, 12:53 AM
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PerlFlunkie 3860 Feb 27, 2004, 7:59 AM