Thanks for the reply Dave. Very much appreciated. As I said in my post, I know no one is doing anything on purpose. And to further aggravate the situation, when someone who IS able to read your posts places a reply to them, I can THEN read your initial post in the other person's reply............???!!!??? Go figure (smile) Anyway, as I also said, a number of others have voiced the same issue but, from the sounds of it, it seems to difficult a task to even troubleshoot the cause of the issue so I am content to leave it as it is. Again thanks for your response and I look forward to birding with you in the days, months and years to come. You are a very valuable asset to we birders of the Finger Lakes Regions, and I appreciate your presence in our midst. Be well Dave. Pete
On 8/28/2015 7:27 PM, Dave Nutter wrote: > To Pete, > To the few (I hope) others who receive my CayugaBirds postings garbled, > To anyone who knows someone in that situation and is willing to > forward this info to them, and > To anyone who understands and/or is willing to fix the problem: > > I have heard before that a few people in some situations only get > garble from me via CayugaBirds-L. Others obviously are able to read > the messages perfectly well, so these people do not understand the issue. > > Although I like to think of myself as a pretty good birder and writer, > I am not a technical computer person. > > I know that what I type shows up on my keyboard with only the usual > number of typos. When I send it, it gets communicated and transformed > numerous times by my software, then by my internet service, then by > Cornell's "lyris" system of listservs, then in Pete's case by the > ABA's collection of CayugaBirds-L postings, then by whatever internet > sevice you use, by whatever device you are receiving it on and the > software it uses. All of these were designed by good but flawed people > working for good but flawed companies who sort of care about you and > me in a general way, but not specifically enough to have solved this > problem yet. Or maybe they deliberately created the problem because it > made something else more convenient, because it doesn't affect enough > people who make enough noise yet. > > The system works for most people, and what I receive looks as good to > me as when I sent it out. Yet something deep on my end of the chain is > incompatible with something deep on your end if it doesn't work for > you. It doesn't seem to be a Cornell problem necessarily. Rather it > seems to be how somebody else is handling messages from Cornell and > getting them to you. > > Is it possible that I could change something and make it better for > you? Probably, since other people are able to send messages which > don't arrive to you garbled. However, I have neither the expertise to > diagnose the problem, nor the money to buy new stuff, nor the desire > to change an email and record-keeping system that mostly works for me. > Sorry. Of course you can wait hopefully until my system irrevocably > crashes or is made incompatible with the rest of the world I care > about. Then I will have to buy something new, which may or may not > work better. > > Would Cornell be able to figure out and solve the problem? Doubtless > they have experts, but their service mostly works for their actual > subscribers (which seems not to directly include you), so they may not > be interested, but one could ask. You could start with the > CayugaBirds-L manager Chris Tessaglia-Hymes (cth4 at cornell dot edu) > and see what he says or who he connects you with. For a head start I > copied this email to him. > > Maybe the ABA folks should be asked what they are doing to my posts. > It seems pretty irresponsible of them to garble or delete my messages > while claiming they are providing a record. > > Perhaps you could try something other than the ABA's "service". For > instance, at the bottom of every CayugaBirds-L post there is a link to > ARCHIVES. Choice #1 works for me, but of course that proves nothing > because I never had a problem reading my posts. Anyway how about > looking here: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html > > I hope this direct email to you works, and I hope to see you tomorrow at > Knox-Marsellus. > > --Dave Nutter > > On Aug 28, 2015, at 04:15 PM, Asher Hockett <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I looked at the ABA posts taken from CayugaBirds. Dave Nutter's show >> header information and the content appears to be lacking. I doubt >> this has anything to do with his posting, but rather something which >> happens when ABA lifts the CB data. >> >> On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 10:11 AM, Peter <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Dear folks: >> >> Perhaps there is a misunderstanding due to the word(s) I used in >> my previous email. >> When I go online to the American Birding Association site and >> choose the "Birdingnews" tab it populates a list of clubs around >> the country. >> >From that list I choose the "New York Cayuga" entry and it >> populates, by date, posts that folks have made. >> Whenever I try to choose Dave's post it doesn't show any post one >> can read.........all that it shows is a whole bunch of >> unintelligible technical-looking words (hence my use of the word >> "computereeze. >> And I am not alone in this problem.......a number of others have >> told me they are in the same predicament. >> I'm sure it is nothing Dave is doing on purpose...........perhaps >> there is some glitch with his posts. I do not experience this >> problem with any other posts on the site other than Dave's. >> I hope that clarifies the issue for all, and apologize if I >> caused confusion among the "ranks" of my fellow birders. >> Pete Saracino >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Cayugabirds-L List Info: >> http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME >> http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES >> >> http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm >> >> ARCHIVES: >> 1) >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html >> 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds >> 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html >> >> Please submit your observations to eBird: >> http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ >> >> -- >> >> >> >> >> -- >> asher >> > -- > *Cayugabirds-L List Info:* > Welcome and Basics <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME> > Rules and Information <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES> > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> > *Archives:* > The Mail Archive > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html> > Surfbirds <http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds> > BirdingOnThe.Net <http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html> > *Please submit your observations to eBird > <http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>!* > -- > > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com <http://www.avg.com> > Version: 2015.0.6125 / Virus Database: 4409/10530 - Release Date: 08/28/15 > -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
