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Re: Missing mailings.
From: Wolfgang K�berer
Date: 2006 Apr 11, 23:52 +0200
From: Wolfgang K�berer
Date: 2006 Apr 11, 23:52 +0200
Dear all, for someone like me - who is mostly lurking - the discussion during the last few days is most fascinating: like a sociological experiment in how to disturb a peaceful community by dropping the hint that things that they rely upon - smooth funtioning of things based on the belief that everything is functioning smoothly - may not be justified. 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. But then somebody rings the bell - and everything changes. Causes are discussed, alternatives - a new list - are set up. Everybody then wonders what will happen, if a new list is set up (who is going to control it - who controlled the old list - who controlled the old archive - who is going to control the new archive, and so on). Nobody is discussing the things any more that this list presumably is all about: navigation. Instead messages to the "world" are being sent and responded to by real peaople like Pavlov's dog. As I said: most interesting. A sociologist researching the interpersonal relationships in mailing lists in the early 21st century will have a ball some time in the future when he stumbles across this particular period in the navl archive. Regards, Wolfgang -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht----- Von: Navigation Mailing List [mailto:NAVIGATION-L@LISTSERV.WEBKAHUNA.COM]Im Auftrag von George Huxtable Gesendet: Dienstag, 11. April 2006 20:54 An: NAVIGATION-L@LISTSERV.WEBKAHUNA.COM Betreff: Missing mailings. In common with many others, I have received a copy of Frank Reed's latest test posting. Clearly, there are many Nav-l members waiting for news out there. So far, I have received neither of the two items "posted missing", referred to previously. One was the first posting in a thread "compass card with more than 360 degrees"; the other with threadname "compute sun's position". Of course there may be others I have missed; if so, I am unlikely to find out. I have requested investigation into what are clearly serious distribution problems at Nav-l. I have provided Dan Hogan with header information for a message that took 4 months to get from the webkahuna host to my ISP (1 of 16). But there has been no response, so far. The good ship "Nav-l" continues to take on water, clearly holed below the waterline. Her captain appears reluctant to leave the poop and go below into the hold to investigate the damage, denying that there's anything amiss. I have to admit, somewhat reluctantly, that Frank may be right. It may make sense to jump ship, into the vessel that he has provided; imperfect though those arrangements may be. George. =============== contact George Huxtable at george@huxtable.u-net.com or at +44 1865 820222 (from UK, 01865 820222) or at 1 Sandy Lane, Southmoor, Abingdon, Oxon OX13 5HX, UK.