> > From: Antonio Aparicio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2004/07/07 Wed AM 09:34:27 EDT > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: OT: Non-Microsoft browsers are most secure choice > > Thanks for getting back Doug.
No problem. > > 1. Thanks for the reassurance. Again, no problem. > > 2. I have never had a message lost on the internet except for on this > list. I think there is a problem here you need to look into. How can > you be sure that the brand of software you use is of no consequence, > clearly something is not working. The software works fine; a message comes in, gets readdressed to the list subscribers, and is sent out. Once it leaves the server, any number of things can happen to it that is not under the software's control, or mine. Sometimes the email doesn't make it. If you've never lost a message, it tells me two things. 1.) You're extremely lucky, and 2.) you haven't used email for very long. I have nearly twenty years in the wired world that tells me shit happens and there's very little you can do about it. If a message is properly addressed and formatted (no guarantee, as I see bounced and mis-addressed messages every day) and the software sends it out to the list, then it has done its job. If User X gets the message and User Y doesn't, then there is something in the pipeline between the list software and User Y that is fouling things up, because the software doesn't pick and choose which users to send the messages to; it simply adds the subscriber address to the address field and sends it on. You are, of course, free to believe what you wish, but keep one thing in mind while you do so: I am involved in the list intimately every day. Even on vacation, if I have access to the web, I check to make certain it is running properly. I will decide whether or not something is "clearly wrong," and then act accordingly. No amount of hand-wringing over imagined Gatesian conspiracies is going to change that. > > 3. Good. Yep. > > Antonio Doug p.s. Marnie, clean out your emailbox.
