wget -A downloading anyway then removing to cover its tracks

[Dan Jacobson]

Fellas, I was all excited about wget's -A:

    `-A ACCLIST'
    `--accept ACCLIST'
    `accept = ACCLIST'
         The argument to `--accept' option is a list of file suffixes or
         patterns that Wget will download during recursive retrieval.  A
         suffix is the ending part of a file, and consists of "normal"
         letters, e.g. `gif' or `.jpg'.  A matching pattern contains
         shell-like wildcards, e.g. `books*' or `zelazny*196[0-9]*'.

because it was certainly going to save me big money on my downloads,
when to my surprise, it apparently just downloads the file anyway, and
then removes it to cover its tracks in case I come checking.  Just
like some mischievous kid:  

@ --08:27:28--  http://dman.ddts.net/%7Ejidanni/mailreject/?D=A
@            => `index.html?D=A'
@ Connecting to dman.ddts.net[65.107.69.216]:80... connected.
@ HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
@ Length: unspecified [text/html]
@ Last-modified header missing -- time-stamps turned off.
@ --08:27:31--  http://dman.ddts.net/%7Ejidanni/mailreject/?D=A
@            => `index.html?D=A'
@ Connecting to dman.ddts.net[65.107.69.216]:80... connected.
@ HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
@ Length: unspecified [text/html]
@ 
@     0K ..                                                       15.90 KB/s
@ 
@ 08:27:37 (15.90 KB/s) - `index.html?D=A' saved [2751]
@ 
@ Removing index.html?D=A since it should be rejected.

I am using "woody" and the command was
wget -A 20\* -m -nd  http://dman.ddts.net/~jidanni/mailreject/
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