[geocentrism] Apology and explanation

From: Paul Deema <paul_deema@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Geocentrism@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 12:22:22 +0000 (GMT)
Greetings all!
When posts have not arrived at the time of logging on on the second day after 
making them, I submit that one has a licence to panic. When subsequent posts 
also do not arrive, I submit that the licence has been extended. All of these 
items were in my "Sent Items" box, so I "Forwarded" them. They still didn't 
arrive. More ominously, they did not arrive in my own "In Box". Three "failure 
notices" did arrive from the net nanny and four " [no subject] - Unknown "  
messages appeared at freelists/geocentrism (always at the bottom) which contain 
jumbled text and html code(?) tags seemingly from my posts.
I next tried copying the contents into new posts from my home mail box -- new 
country, new IPS -- they still didn't arrive. Next tests involved sending tests 
between mail boxes and they arrived promptly. I began to suspect 
geocentrism@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Today on logging on, I find all the posts seem to have arrived including the 
panic induced forwarded copies (sincere apologies to anyone who feels they have 
been hectored). I also received an email from an unconnected acquaintance 
stating that he had received a "failure to deliver - unknown addressee" type 
message when he had tried to email me. Three hours later, a subsequent attempt 
succeeded.
I'm posting this to apologise for any angst I may have caused but also as a 
test of the lines of communication and I'll wait for it to arrive before making 
any further posts. It took me some hours to audit the posts vs arrivals and I 
don't want to have to do that again.
I have learnt something useful from this exercise however -- let me share it 
with you. Part of the audit exercise included making a list of the posts 
received at freelists. I found that the click/drag method of marking the block 
of directory entries for the block copy function didn't work, so I tried 
something I'd stumbled upon recently in extracting info from the source of the 
full header of posts on Yahoo -- and it worked here also. If you left_click at 
the start of the block of data you wish to mark and then shift/left_click at 
the end, the block is marked and can be copied. It may also work with other 
'difficult' text situations but I haven't tried yet. Hope this is useful rather 
that simply demonstrating that I am way behind the play!
Paul D


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