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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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