Re: *** ADMIN: Probable web site outage!

I am sorry to hear that this is happening to you & with my posts no less.

Sometimes when I post something to Midrange, I see my post bounce back to me 
in less than an hour & sometimes it takes days ... thus if there is something 
I want to post & it does not show up, I wait several days before retrying 
anything.

I would first ask if you are on other lists & if this only happens to you on 
Midrange list - reason being that sometimes weird stuff happens & it helps to 
troubleshoot if this is a problem with MY ISP / YOUR ISP / or MIDRANGE L ISP.

I have only seen a narrow range of instances of repeating messages.

1. Sometimes the Midrange_L ISP malfunctions & it causes people posts to be 
posted again & again, with different users getting different repeating 
patterns, so I get to read Leif's words of wisdom 3 times & you get to read 
my BS 90 times.

I do not know that we need an explanation of David as to the technicalities 
of this, it is enough to tell him that the list is repeating again.

2. People move & go on trips & their e-mail when they are gone responds in a 
manner that is not designed to get them off of the list gracefully.

3. Sometimes AOL fails & ends up with sending out 2 copies of the first 
e-mail in any cluster that I send ... I can usually catch this pretty fast 
because I often send an e-mail copy to myself almost every day at the front 
of my cluster, and I also regularly check my log of mail headers ... when I 
see that this is happening again, I put a dummy post to myself & to no one 
else at the front of my clusters until I can get it fixed.

4. Sometimes AOL gets corrupted in sending e-mail to me & I have to get 
another corrected copy but the error-routines are not good enough to inform 
the end user what the heck is going on - we have to figure this out for 
ourselves.

> From: RRiehle@sorrentolactalis.com
>  
>  I appreciate the posts that I recieve from Midrange but there are select
>  users ( as an example / MacWheel ) that when he posts a message, the 
message
>  will post at 2 minute intervals sometimes resulting in as many as 90 post 
of
>  the same message.   
>  Anyone have an idea of how to prevent this from happening ?? 

MacWheel99@aol.com (Alister Wm Macintyre) (Al Mac)


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