It doesn't seem to be simply a matter of backlogged messages finally going out. My friend replied to the mystery messages received from me and I thought she was accidentally responding on the wrong thread. Her texts seemed spontaneous and disjointed which is why I assumed she was on the wrong thread. When we talked about it, it became clear she thought she was responding to me and sent me a screenshot of the messages she was replying to. I keep a copy of every message so I was able to locate the point in time in the past where this dialog happened and found the 2/14 timestamps. But here's the thing. She had interacted with me correctly at the time back on 2/14. The message did not get stuck and undelivered. This was a resend of a set of completed messages.
On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 12:07 PM Sean Donelan <s...@donelan.com> wrote: > On Fri, 8 Nov 2019, Jared Mauch wrote: > > I run mailing lists. I’ve had times where I find something stuck in > > the system and instead of just deleting it, I actually try to make sure > > it goes out based on the original intent. This has resulted in me > > sending out e-mails a year or two later at times. > > Ok, you run mailing lists mostly on an amatuer (personal, unpaid) basis. > > Every commercial organization delivering customer records should have a > record retention/archive schedule. Holding on to customer data longer > than necessary for business purposes is just increasing your liability > when something goes wrong. And it always goes wrong. > > Many tech startup companies never think about record retention schedules, > or their privacy policy says 'indefinitely', which means the lawyer wrote > something down in the policy but no one really thought about it. > > Western Union learned that lesson with telegrams a hundred years ago. > Tech firms keep re-learning old lessons, the hard way. >