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I use the NJIT server, even when I work at home. To get all myJIT
profession-related emails, Forum and Lists included, I connect to N=
(adm.njit.edu). Probably a local server must also be involved in t=his
case, but I have dismally truncated knowledge about these things. T=he
last glitch I wrote about (and two others of the same type, alreadywn",
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 to=
or do you directly connect to the internet through a tele' co, serv=er?
ns
bc, who thinks either a mail app. or a server is sending two versio=
ofg
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 sayin=
tthat my
message was being returned unprocessed and that I should alter i=
n,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 patter=
toand I have often had the same problem. One of may latest messages =
lfthe List went through, judging by the fact that I received it myse=
.immediately after sending, and without any notices from the server=
theHowever, I also received it in two copies - one as I sent it, but =
rdother in a different format, with text rearranged in a long column
like a poem, interrupted by signs like $ and 20, which makes it ha=
es,to read. What bothers me most is not so much the glitches themselv=
heas their apparent irregularity: I use the same procedure to send t=
oksmessages (or do I?). The outcome, however, fluctuates wildly:
sometimes it goes smoothly, sometimes I get a glitch. To me, it lo=
_______________________________________________like quantum-mechanical measurement of an observable in a
superposition of eigenstates, rather than performance of regular
classical computer.
Moses Fayngold,
NJIT