What I do when I'm unsure and want to check, is check the cp archives here:
https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/ view by date, and look at the most recent emails. If the email is the archives already, obviously it was received by the list server, and most likely sent out to all subscribers... On Sun, Nov 03, 2019 at 08:38:12PM +0000, jim bell wrote: > Well, people (?) have been speaking quite recently about apparent problems > with the Cypherpunks list email-acceptance reliability. Do we (or you?) have > any reason to believe such reports are deliberately phony? I think the large > majority of comments I've made recently to CP (days, weeks) have proceeded > promptly. So when I see an aberration, I identify it as such. > After about 74 minutes of non-appearance of that message, at least failing to > return back to me in a virtually comment free list (indicating that the > server can't possibly be 'busy'), I think any logical person familiar with > the working of email lists (and specifically CP) would suspect that the sent > message had simply been "lost", and the logical response would have been to > re-post it, as I did. > Yet, you are strongly implying that my interpretation of events was somehow > wrong or even illogical. > On Sunday, November 3, 2019, 12:06:56 PM PST, Razer <[email protected]> > wrote: > > >Just because you haven't received your copy yet (or at all) doesn't mean we > haven't. > Just because you MAY have received your copy (you might be lying; presumably, > we'll hear from others soon enough to determine if my first attempt to send > the message actually got through to anyone else) doesn't mean you have a > correct position.) You MIGHT have only seen the second message, which > included the original header, and decided to muddy the water and 'score > points' by implying that I interpreted events incorrectly.) > And, I note, nobody else responded (yet) to my recent first attempt to > send that message. Had I received even one such answer, that would have > suggested that the CP server had successfully posted my message. The absence > of any response, to me, even 74 minutes later, at least doesn't contradict > the idea that the CP server had somehow coughed and failed, at least on one > email. > > > >Rr > >Sent from my Androgyne dee-vice > >Ps. Get psychiatric help > > Your illogical reactions, could also reflect YOUR need for such psychiatric > help. I, at least, can actually justify my actions and reasoning. Put > simply, I'm believable, and you are not.
