So it's Empress janet now? Is that a pro- or de-
motion?        Carole H.

--- janet paterson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> hi all
>
> At 09:01 1999/09/24 -0500, darwin wrote, in part:
> >...I have been getting three sets of each digest
> for months now.
> >Stopped for a while after I unsubscribed and
> resubscribed, but
> >now doing it again and the same procedure didn't
> work this time. ...
> >We may have to demote our goddess list elf to maybe
> princess list
> >ragamuffin....
>
> 1. If the duplication/triplication problem affected
> all listmembers
> one could deduce that LISTSERV is the culprit. That
> is not the case here.
>
> 2. Since Darwin was able to eliminate the problem
> once by an action
> of his, I tend to think the source of his problem is
> at his end.
>
> 3. Since Barb M has had multiple server problems
> with MSN, I tend to
> think the source of her problem is at her end.
>
> 4. All of the above is not to imply dereliction of
> duties by the
> list nerdette empress.
>
> 5. Computers are not intelligent [yet]. They do as
> they are told.
> Problems and seeming 'mysteries' can and do arise
> when a sophisticated
> and complex e-mail 'client' program interacts with a
> sophisticated and
> complex 'server' program.
>
> 6. Such 'mysteries' are not necessarily complex
> themselves. Generally
> they are quite simple, but need to be detected with
> care and patience.
>
> 7. I have read the LISTSERV Owner's and User's
> manuals cover to cover.
> More than once. I subscribe to the LISTSERV owner's
> mailing list. The
> documentation is not perfect. Nothing is. The
> internet is a growing,
> changing and completely unpredictable entity. It and
> the software supporting
> it are a combined mega-work-in-progress.
>
> 8. The secret to most LISTSERV problems is in the
> 'gobbledeegook' headers
> which are full of nerdish instructions which are
> decipherable only by
> e-mail software. viz: A normal person would think
> that these headers
> all mean the same thing:
> "Reply-to:"
> "Sender:"
> "From:"
> but Nooooo!
>
> 9. If anyone receives odd-ball duplications or
> triplications of messages,
> please send them to me ***complete with all
> headers***, for detection either
> by moi or by the mega-nerds at LISTOWNR-L.
>
> 10. Please note that sending such
> e-mail-software-sensitive information
> requires > marks at the front of each line, so as to
> render the gobbledeegook
> powerless, or else the message will go into the
> ethereal equivalent of the
> Mobius loop, never to be seen again.
>
> 11. If you are still reading this, I salute you and
> hereby pledge that my
> efforts at 'fixing' the problem will reflect
> equivalent doggedness and
> patience.
>
>
> janet
> the nerdette list empress of all she surveys
>
> janet paterson
> 52 now / 41 dx / 37 onset
> 613 256 8340 po box 171 almonte ontario canada K0A
> 1A0
> a new voice:
> <http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Village/6263/>
> <[log in to unmask]>
>

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