Re: lost message

[Dick Smith <rsmith@gulf.net>]

Ludwik Kowalski wrote:
> Brian is quoting a message that  was posted on Saturday
> by Sue Willis. I did not receive it. Should this be taken
> as a clear proof that our receiving server is not working
> properly? I did receive messages which were posted
> yesterday and today.

Well, in this business "working properly" should never be construed to
mean "there's never an error." :-)  The queue might be full; the systems
people at your end might have purged the spool for one reason or
another; other things could have happened.  

> Should it be assumed that phys-L messages arriving  when
> our server is "not on line" are NOT LOST because the phys-L
> mailer sends them again, over and over for several days?

PHYS-L tries for three days, then gives up and dumps all the held mail. 
If *that* happens three days in a row, then I assume that the connection
has been permanently lost, and I usually remove the subscriber from the
subscription list.  I apologize in advance to those who should not have
been deleted; in any case it's a simple matter to resubscribe. 

==> Dick

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