To those of you who are afraid of missing some postings on this list.
It's common knowledge that e-mail servers are down from time to time.
That and other reasons could cause you to miss out on some of the postings
from the list.
The mersenne list digests are numbered sequentially.
Suppose the messages sent to the subscribers of the mersenne discussion list
were (also) numbered sequentially.
(The counter could be reset to 0 on a yearly basis)
It would then be easier for each of us to quickly spot any dropped messages.
For instance, I'm counting 221 Mersenne list messages on my computer
since 1-1-2001.
(That's if I count from Martijn's message written on 1 Jan 12:14:14 +0100
up to and incl. Brian Beesley's message written on 9 Mar 11:09:53 -0000)
What's your count?
How useful/practical/difficult would it be to
have the messages numbered automagically?
Robert.
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