concern that e-mail getting through

[Fairlight]

Four score and seven years--eh, screw that!
At about Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 05:36:10PM -0400,
Dennis Malen blabbed on about:
> I have a concern that all of my e-mails to the list may not be getting 
> through.
> 
> I try to respond to everyone's responses to my problem. I respect their time 
> and if they respond I certainly want to respond in kind.
> 
> Recently, without naming names, I have received requests to expand upon a 
> problem. I send it and then I get another request for the same thing from 
> another person.
> 
> How do I confirm that all of my responses are getting through?

If you want to do it the tedious, arduous way, you can confirm it by
checking the list archives at:

     http://lists.celestial.com/pipermail/filepro-list

If it's listed there, it hit the list.

However, there's a far easier solution:  Assume they're getting through
when you receive your own posts back from the list.  If they come back to
you from the list, they went through the list.  There's no two ways about
that.

People request the same thing at differing times for the same reason 10-20
people may kick out the same answer to a question over the range of 2-4
days; they read their mail at differing times, in differing threading
models, and may or may not yet have gotten to the salient posts.  Further,
they may not read through an entire thread to see any progress or
resolution, instead jumping in and back-dating an assertion based on
something that was already thrice-covered.  Alternately, some hop in late
on a thread and never read the question they're about to ask as authored by
someone else originally, some period of time earlier.

mark->  
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