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hi all here i go again anwswering a private message in public but i think this is worth sharing iow [in other words] i hope it may benefit someone else janet At 05:56 1999/10/20 -0500, paul wrote to me: >Anything is possible -- BUT -- I got messages from >several sources ---- 8 listservs (including Sparkle and >Activa) and private emails and 3 weekly postings of >airline efares. The duplications seem to all originate >at PARKINSN. Thank goodness the other lists are not as >active as PARK. > >I had four of a message but checking the times indicated >to me that person sent the message more than once---they >were advertising a deadline for a world conference. The >message originated from the CIGR-FAO server that has >several sublists --- the sender posted the message on >each of the sublists --- so they were really not >duplicate postings. > >I know it is possible that the PARKINSN messages to >several ISPs throughout the US could have been routed >through the same server somewhere. In this case it >appears the origin was one thing in common. I do not >permanently delete my files each day in case I make a >mistake so currently have 903 deleted files with 425 >unread (deleted before they were open for 8 seconds) >still on my machine. > >Paul hi paul your comments re duplicates are interesting and so are your comments re your reluctance to delete PARKINSN mail [for fear of missing anything?] they speak volumes as to how important our messages are to each other a wee word of wisdom in re any anxiety you may have about 'losing' messages: every message ever posted to parkinsn since november 8 1993 is in the archives not 'lost' e.g. if you want to see all the messages that were sent into the list on one day, send the command message: SEARCH * IN PARKINSN FROM 19991019 TO 19991019 listserv will send back a summary listing all such messages from which you can select which ones you want listserv to send to you janet 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]>