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If anyone on the Full Thrust list reads this, could you please send me an

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Date sent:  15-JUL-1996 08:47:03

> If anyone on the Full Thrust list reads this, could you please send me

> Allan

OK. I've replied to Allan direct, but this is for everyone.

I can, and do, remove people from the list every now and again. This is
necessary as the amount of bounced traffic from the list is quite high. I'll
not remove someone for just one bounce, but if the problem persists, they will
be removed without warning and without notification. (How can you notify a
faulty address?).

If you do have mail problems and find that you are not receiving E-mail,
there are a few things you can do.

In the first instance you can check the archive for new mail. (Some
of you might want to do this anyway as some E-mail systems insist on
sending non ascii characters that result in a lot of bounces, so you might
have missed some posts. Mike Elliot's server is particularly bad at this).

Second, you can send the command REVIEW to the address;

FTGZG-L-REQUEST@BOLTON.AC.UK

to return a list of all subscribers, and see if you are included.

> Adam Delafield wrote:

A quick note about the archive; because of the way web pages are done on

our site (i.e. they're uploaded to the server every six hours or so), and
because of the way I'm doing the archiving, messages may take as long as three
to four days before they're posted to the archive.

Simply, I save the messages as they're sent, and only post the whole thing to
the mailing list when I have a good chunk of them, a maximum of one issue a
day. The bandwidth this list occupies makes this a good compromise between
keeping an up to date archive, and working on what UUNET pays me for.
(8-)

Thanks,
J.

> Adam Delafield wrote:

> In the first instance you can check the archive for new mail. (Some of

I wasn't actually aware of this, so please accept my apologies, particularly
you, Adam. Thanks for putting up with it!! I understand that in a month or two
our email will be routed directly to Internet instead of via X400 as at
present. I would think the probable cause of the non ascii
characters is the translation to/from X400, so hopefully when we get a
_real_ Internet connection, the problem will go away. Is this perhaps
why I sometimes don't get all the posts?

Thanks also to Jerry for setting up the archive - its very useful!!

Mike Elloitt, GZG