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Peter Fogg wrote-


|I wonder if some or all of the messages that have apparently gone
missing
| from the Irbs archive failed to reach that destination because they
were not
| sent in the desired format, eg; as Plain text.
|
| One from me entitled " Advancing a position circle" sent Sunday
never got
| there; was not in Plain Text. Another with the same subject sent
about an
| hour later, in Plain Text, did.

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It chimes in with this message, which I sent to Nav-l on 12 June, as
follows-

========
An interesting posting in the thread  "Position from crossing two
circles : was [NAV-L] Reality check"

was sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 7:48 AM, by Andres Ruiz.

It included, within the text of the message I received, a diagram of a
sphere with two intersecting circles drawn on it. That in itself is
unusual for Nav-l messages, which are usually sent, as requested, in
text-only mode; but I am not opening that question. Presumably the
message must have been sent in HTML; but if a plain-text version
accompanied it, perhaps I would be unaware.

What interests me more is that following a reply to that message,
Frank Reed wrote, on that same day,

"I didn't receive this message  and there's no evidence of it in the
irbs
archive that I can find --possibly it  was a private message-- but I
would be
interested in receiving a copy. Could  someone forward a copy to me?
Thanks."

This seems to me to be worth following-up, for any light it may throw
on the question of missing messages, which seem to be still plaguing
the list.

I looked into responding to Frank's request, but when I tried to
forward a copy, it had that diagram stripped out, perhaps because my
own emailer program is set to send in plain-text only. So I gave up on
that. Later, Frank informed us that a copy had been forwarded to him
from another member, so all was well. I wonder if that forwarded copy
included the original diagram.

On request, Andres resent his original posting on 9 June. In fact,
there were 3 resends on that day, so altogether 4 such postings were
sent altogether. There may possibly have been more, of course, but
those were what reached me. All included that diagram. There were, in
addition, shorter postings from him around that time on that same
topic, which do not concern me.

I wonder how many (if any) copies of that original Andes Ruiz posting
arrived in Frank's mailbox, not counting any forwarded copies that
arrived from elsewhere. Did they include that diagram? From those that
keep an eye on the i-DEADLINK-com archive, how many copies of Andres'
original posting appeared? Did they include the diagram? Did other
members fail to receive all four copies of that message, with its
diagram? If less than four, how many?

Only by collating such evidence do we have any hope of discovering
what's going wrong.

===========================

There has been no response to that posting, so far, and it may be, of
course, that Frank has failed to get that message also. But no doubt
he has had a lot of other stuff of greater urgency on his mind, with
the Mystic meeting (of which I have heard good reports). I hope that
my questions will be followed up, as will Peter's. How many, I wonder,
failed to receive his posting which showed a photo of a globe with
circle drawn on it, sent 18 June at 01:24, under threadname "Advancing
a position circle"?

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.

   

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