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From: George Huxtable (no email)
Date: Tue Apr 11 2006 - 19:39:50 EDT
Wolfgang Koberer wrote, about this list and its current problems-
It may really not have beeen
functioning smoothly all the time but nobody has raised the question before
and the few instances of things not really functioning 100% so far have not
been noticed or disturbed anybody. Because we basically know: in the real
world things do not function 100% - apart from the sun rising in the east
every morning - so we have not been bothered by a few missing messages, we
might have missed them anyway.
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Response from George.
That doesn't describe what's been happening. Over the last several months, I have been aware that messages that others have received
have not reached my inbox, At the time, after I had posted messages to the list to say so, the notion was dismissed by Dan as being
the result of overactive spam filters. My spam filter keeps a log of the source and subject of rejected messages and there is no
record of any Nav-l messages lost by that route..
What you don't know about, you don't miss. When an avalanche of 16 old messages, retained somewhere over recent months, arrived in
my inbox, I realised how much I had been missing. On the same day another Nav-l member, in France, had 54 such old messages arrive.
Did anything similar happen to Wolfgang, I wonder?
It's a serious matter, not to be lightly dismissed, if receipt of list messages can't be relied on. How can members be sure they are
participating properly in a discussion, if they are not reading all views (or suspect that might be the case, even when it isn't).
To an occasional lurker, that may not matter. To a regular participant, it does.
Two more messages have failed to be received here in the last week or so. Maybe more, of course; there's no way I can tell. It needs
investigating.
I am not at all keen to leave this list, which has given me much fun over many years. I would go only with great reluctance. But go
I will, if the problem isn't fixed. First, it has to be accepted that there is a problem. Perhaps, to Wolfgang, there's no problem,
but there is to me.
George.
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