Dear john,
Not ignored -- but unfortunately, you "fell out the bottom" of the
todo-list. My profound apologies.
Hope this resolves your request to your satisfaction?
--thomas
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On 31 Oct 2005, at 00:18, John Hudson wrote:
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> Can someone be so kind as to unsubscribe me from the list. I have
> written to
> the list nanny but am ignored.
>
> John Hudson
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> ----- 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.
>>
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