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Subject: [OM] Re: RESCUE ME
From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 12:57:59 -0700
Cc: gordross@xxxxxxx
Gordon Ross wrote:
> The OM has stopped......
> I checked Norton spam and its not stopped at my end, Moose suggested to 
> re-subscribe which I have done, but not heard back yet.
>   
The list admin program is very quick, so if you don't hear back in a few 
minutes at most, you probably aren't going to hear back.

I've had a problem like this twice. The first time, list mail suddenly 
disappeared from my @sbcglobal.net mail account. After much flailing 
around, I cam the the conclusion that sbcglobal and ml.free.fr were 
simply not going to start talking to each other any time soon. I 
switched my subscription to my site space provider and things went along 
swimmingly for another several months.

Then there was some kind of incident where many list regulars stopped 
getting mail. There was a flurry of direct e-mailing. Eventually, mail 
started coming through many hours or even days late. I had by then tried 
subscribing through yahoo and gmail.

When things finally started settling down again, I discovered something 
interesting. Even before the trouble, I had often noticed that mail 
sometimes came in out of order, with the first post in  athread not 
surfacing ntil some time after several replies. Now, running in 
parallel, I discovered this was happening on one account, but not on 
another.

Gmail was consistently as quick as anything else to get my list mail and 
never had the out or time order problem. So that's what I now use for 
list mail. With free POP3 access, I almost never actually see gmail, 
Thunderbird just goes and gets it.

In your position, I would simply try another free email provider. Or if 
you are stubborn, you could use up lots of time and effort and make 
yourself all angry and/or crazy trying to trace down the problem.

There were only 18 new posts since last night when I checked in today, 
so there could be some kind of slowdon like a few months ago - or it 
could just be the regular slow Saturday on the list.

Moose

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