Can someone be so kind as to unsubscribe me from the list. I have written to
the list nanny but am ignored.
John Hudson
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Dacey" <adacey@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, 26 October, 2005 02:13 PM
Subject: [OM] Re: Can you hear me now?
>
> On 10/26/05, Walt Wayman <hiwayman@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > My posts are either (1) not making it through; (2) are appearing long
after they are sent, or (3) are being ignored. I see John H. has responded
to a post about batteries that hasn't even come to me yet, while my instant
response to his query, suggesting the same supplier, apparently has suffered
one of the three aforementioned fates.
>
> I received your post about the batteries right away. Some of that
> might be explained by how people read the list; if they start with the
> oldest messages and reply as they go then they might not see your
> reply before sending their own. gmail does a decent job of sorting
> things into threads (they call them conversations), so I usually see
> all the messages on one topic at once.
>
> Other possibility would be if someone's mail program checks for mail
> something like every 10mins or even less frequently than that. John's
> message could have popped in on one check before you had sent your
> message (or before it arrived on their end).
>
> > I posted a response yesterday to Bill Barber's painting with light
problem, posing the solution of shining light through the viewfinder rather
than taking the back off the camera, etc. I sent it off at 10:30 a.m. my
time, but it didn't come back to me via the list until after noon. And
then, hours later, two or three folks posted the same solution I had
suggested, meaning they either hadn't received my post, had ignored it, or
were blatantly and shamelessly stealing my thunder.
>
> I'll confess to ignoring your message :-). Actually, I had only
> skimmed it but missed your suggestion about shining light through the
> viewfinder and then replied to the next message suggesting that.
>
> Slowdowns with mail can happen. The process here will be something
> like, message is sent to your ISP's outgoing mail server (SMTP
> server), it's placed into a queue for sending. Then it gets sent to
> the SMTP server for the list and gets put in a queue to be delivered.
> Then it's delivered to the list server. The list server the queues it
> to be sent back out. It goes back to the list ISP's SMTP server and
> gets queued to be sent out then comes back to your ISP's server and
> gets queued for delivery and then gets delivered back to you. That's a
> lot of queues to go through. At any point during that there could be
> slowdowns (such as somebody on the service having a mass mailer virus
> that's sending out thousands of messages). Not to mention that if
> there are any problems with reaching the other server at any point
> then it will hold onto the message and try again later.
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