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  • Re: Retry Resend Daryl

    From Nancy Backus@454:1/452 to Barry Martin on Mon Jul 13 20:15:58 2020
    Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 03-Jul-2020 08:35 <=-

    Third of the retries on the ones that went missing... :)
    Third time's the charm?!

    They all made it, anyway.... ;)

    He seems to come through as a lot better now his new system is being
    build: there's light at the end of the black hole!
    Um... yeah... good simile... <G>
    I took Mangling Metaphors 101 and 102!
    You mean it wasn't from Creative Metaphors 201....? ;)
    Well, since it was lead by the same person teaching the Alternative Alliteration classes probably stuck in a rut!

    Could be... <G>

    Not unusual for the mail tossers to 'get confused' and think old mail
    is new if a flag/bit isn't set or recognized. ...I've had more than a
    few times where my e-mail on Q.com (Qwest --> CenturyLink) has been
    re-re-re downloaded because of a change on their end. ...So a thousand
    and some messages later........
    But these weren't dupes... I recognized them as ones that hadn't come
    thru before... He had a few points there where the computer was
    obviously on enough for him to be able to be reading/answering mail,
    but then not able to actually send it out until later, and it stacked
    up some... ;)
    OK - unlike the 'modern' e-mail with Thunderbird, etc., which is
    generally done on-line and sent out immediately on completion BBS
    e-mail is generally done off-line and so uploaded all at once, so yes,
    can effectively pile up.

    Exactly.

    ttyl neb

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  • From Barry Martin@454:1/1 to Nancy Backus on Tue Jul 14 08:59:00 2020

    Hi Nancy!


    Third of the retries on the ones that went missing... :)
    Third time's the charm?!
    They all made it, anyway.... ;)

    Finally!



    Not unusual for the mail tossers to 'get confused' and think old mail
    is new if a flag/bit isn't set or recognized. ...I've had more than a
    few times where my e-mail on Q.com (Qwest --> CenturyLink) has been
    re-re-re downloaded because of a change on their end. ...So a thousand
    and some messages later........
    But these weren't dupes... I recognized them as ones that hadn't come
    thru before... He had a few points there where the computer was
    obviously on enough for him to be able to be reading/answering mail,
    but then not able to actually send it out until later, and it stacked
    up some... ;)
    OK - unlike the 'modern' e-mail with Thunderbird, etc., which is
    generally done on-line and sent out immediately on completion BBS
    e-mail is generally done off-line and so uploaded all at once, so yes,
    can effectively pile up.
    Exactly.

    And I've had a few on-line e-mails get backlogged....


    ... I-con: How MS got you to use WinDoze in the first place

    For some reason "new and improved!" is echoing in my head!


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