Re: more on bugs in penl

[GSKILLMAN]

Doug Orr writes concerning the apparent problem that some messages 
aren't received by all of us on PEN-L:

 
 I think we have a way to test this.  I have the sense from past exchanges
 that Gil Skillman is almost as fanatic about saving msgs as I am.  Several
 people have made reference to his comments on the election;  comment that 
 I never received.  Gil, do you have a record of where you posted your
 election comments?  Was it PKT?  was is PENL?  or both?
 

Doug's sure right on the first point--the only reason my browsing 
file contains only 1163 past messages is that it overloads past 1200.
Anyway, I'm only on one net, PEN-L (for reason why, see previous 
statement).  So if everybody here didn't get my post on the election, 
something may indeed be haywire.

NB:  Note, though, that my election comments were at the end on a 
post on a different subject, "Atlas plugged".  So people may have 
either blipped the election comments entirely or only scanned the 
first part of the message.

Gil Skillman

more on bugs in penl

[DORR]

Both Michael P. and Ric H. responded with this idea of the cause of
the problem.
I think what is happening is that there are many people who subscribe to
both pen-l and pkt and occasionally they forget which net they are 
responding to. And so a message intended for the pen-l list will be sent
over pkt and vice-versa.

I think we have a way to test this.  I have the sense from past exchanges
that Gil Skillman is almost as fanatic about saving msgs as I am.  Several
people have made reference to his comments on the election;  comment that 
I never received.  Gil, do you have a record of where you posted your
election comments?  Was it PKT?  was is PENL?  or both?

Just trying to collect data here.
Doug Orr
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