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Renee Mattie wrote, about i-DEADLINK-com-

It also did not archive Andres
| Ruiz's message of June 8 with the circles in it
| (http://www.i-DEADLINK-com/lists/navigation/0606/author.html, under the
subject "
| Re: [NAV-L] Position from crossing two circles: was [NAV-L]
| Reality              check"), even though the message was "only"
55KB.  Who
| knows if IRBS.COM received the message from WEBKAHUNA, though.  I
received
| the message, but George Huxtable did not.

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Just to keep the record straight, I did in fact receive that message.
Others, such as the i-DEADLINK-com site, may perhaps deliberately filter out
such messages containing embedded graphics or graphical attachments. I
can see the advantages, for such an archive, in sticking to text-only
messages and binning those with graphics.

In my own case, I use no such sophisticated filtering, rejecting
nothing except those emails that have been pre-tagged as likely spam.
If I take a look at the log of such rejected messages, they never
include any nav-l communications. As far as I can tell (and it's hard
to be sure) I don't seem to be missing out on any recently transmitted
nav-l messages. In that respect, a serial message-number attached to
each successive message (such as Frank achieved with NavList) would be
useful for nav-l..

The spate of missing messages, delayed and then regurgitated several
months later, that happened to me and to some other members a few
months ago, seems not to have reoccurred, pleased to say. However, as
it was never properly understood, we can never be confident it won't
happen again.

The best we can do is to collect and analyse all evidence whenever a
missing message is reported or suspected.

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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