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>At 10:35 AM 4/28/2002 -0400, you wrote: >hi all > >has anyone noticed that john cottingham's website seems to be >missing some postings? PIENO had a glitch Friday afternoon and the few messages that came in until yesterday when it was fixed are not in the maillist and thread pages list. http://parkinsons-information-exchange-network-online.com/maillist.html The number of messages in the maillist on PIENO has changed from a weeks latest messages to a few days for the benefit of our international visitors. Maintaining 500 in the list made the page load slowly for them. I cut down the list maintained on the page to the last 300 messages. The few messages that were missed in the list on PIENO are still available for reading and searching in Simon Coles Parkinsn Archive whose search box is on the maillist page. HAVE YOU BEEN MISSING PARKINSN MESSAGES? Many ISPs have reduced the amount of email you can maintain on the server. If your email program is mistakenly set to 'Leave Mail on Server' your mailbox can be locked by your ISP until you download those messages to your machine which empties your mailbox on the server allowing new messages to arrive. If your email box is locked because it is full, ANY message sent to you will bounce back to the sender. The listserv notifies me and over a period of time if you don't download your messages the listserv automatically deletes your subscription. In the meantime those messages that bounce are never resent to you. WHERE IS PARKINSN GOING? The success of Parkinsn over the years is causing us difficulty now. After the pruning of the dead email addresses we still have over 800 subscribed even though only about 50 post to the list at any given time. Perhaps it is time for each of us to reevaluate if subscribing to Parkinsn is really necessary. The only advantage to subscription is the ability to send email to the list. If you are a lurker, you don't really need to subscribe, you can have the benefits of reading the messages online and eliminate the handling of large amounts of email on your computer. Multiplying the number of messages received times 800 taxes our host which is the University of Toronto. The generosity they have shown by hosting us over the last 8 years is priceless. They are being required to justify their expenditures for non-university endeavors. Parkinsn is considered an activist group and doctors and universities are afraid of us and the potential liabilities. We have been trying to find another host for Parkinsn in Canada. Number 1 is our activist nature and number 2 is the number of subscribers we have subscribed. Ideally, we are more attractive to listservs if our subscription numbers were 200 or less. We wouldn't be as much of a load for their mail servers. If you just would like to lurk, please use the PIENO maillist page to read the messages and follow the threads. Posting is the only benefit to subscribing. http://parkinsons-information-exchange-network-online.com/maillist.html John Cottingham co-owner Parkinsn mailto:[log in to unmask] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn