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[Phys-L] Re: server glitch



Moses:
Each of your messages is received twice by me.
One looks fine and one has ugly = signs at the
end of each line. Is it me only?

Ludwik Kowalski
Let the perfect not be the enemy of the good.


On Wednesday, Jul 6, 2005, at 10:32 America/New_York, Fayngold, Moses
wrote:

I use the NJIT server, even when I work at home. To get all my
profession-related emails, Forum and Lists included, I connect to NJIT
(adm.njit.edu). Probably a local server must also be involved in this
case, but I have dismally truncated knowledge about these things. The
last glitch I wrote about (and two others of the same type, already
after that), came when I worked from home.

Moses Fayngold



-----Original Message-----
From: Forum for Physics Educators on behalf of Bernard Cleyet
Sent: Wed 7/6/2005 1:17 AM
To: PHYS-L@LISTS.NAU.EDU
Cc:
Subject: Re: server glitch


I forgot -- do you use a local server in addition to a one "down town",
or do you directly connect to the internet through a tele' co, server?

bc, who thinks either a mail app. or a server is sending two versions
of
your msgs., as did his at one time.

Fayngold, Moses wrote:

On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, James R. Frysinger wrote:


"The PHYS-L server has now sent me messages twice in a row saying
that my
message was being returned unprocessed and that I should alter it
somehow
then resubmit it. After doing so, I saw both versions come up on
the server.
My apologies for the duplication".



There is no need for apologies. This seems to be a common pattern,
and I have often had the same problem. One of may latest messages to
the List went through, judging by the fact that I received it myself
immediately after sending, and without any notices from the server.
However, I also received it in two copies - one as I sent it, but the
other in a different format, with text rearranged in a long column
like a poem, interrupted by signs like $ and 20, which makes it hard
to read. What bothers me most is not so much the glitches themselves,
as their apparent irregularity: I use the same procedure to send the
messages (or do I?). The outcome, however, fluctuates wildly:
sometimes it goes smoothly, sometimes I get a glitch. To me, it looks
like quantum-mechanical measurement of an observable in a
superposition of eigenstates, rather than performance of regular
classical computer.

Moses Fayngold,
NJIT


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