Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #12333
To: "'beam@sgiblab.sgi.com'" beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: "Feser, Jason" jfeser@ea.com
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 10:27:23 -0800
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Schematic index
>I've had a few quirky things happen with e-mail, such as seeing one of
>my postings appear on the list 2 days after I sent it. That could be a
>problem with my ISP, or the mailing list ISP, or some system in between.
>I also had no messages from anyone for 36 hours (impossible when you're
>on this list :), followed by a huge dump of messages, including a bunch
>of duplicates. I looked very much as though my ISP was able to receive
>messages, but not pass them on for a couple of days.
One of the reasons for the dupes is that some people are sending to both
list addys. There is beam@corp.sgi.com (I think thats an old one) and
beam@sgiblab.sgi.com. I've also had the 2 day with no mails thing happen,
but I think we can just chalk that up our ISP's. It's kind of frustrating
because sometimes, you give advice, the mail doesn't make it to the list,
someone else gives the same answer and you end up looking like a dork when
the mail finally gets there. Like - Didn't that guy see so and so's answer
before he sent that mail...What a dork!
This is just stuff we will have to live with. The internet is far from
perfect, but damn it if it isn't the best way to research, learn and
share...
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