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Hi Robert. You wrote:
"I have recently noticed that I am not getting all of the nav list postings
and in particular, those posted by George Huxtable. I only know this because
I have been following the lively discussion on the "Taking four stars for
checking accuracy of fix" thread. Clearly George is commenting on this as
there have been a number of counter arguments presented in response, but as
to George's comments, they are not reaching my in box.  Anyone else out
there having this problem?  And no, I did check my system and it is not
blocking anything."

I checked the things that I can check from here. First, there's no
systematic problem as far as I can tell. I have three email addresses signed
up to receive NavList messages and they are missing no messages. I checked
the status of your subscription info at googlegroups, and there's nothing
unusual. You can catch up on any missing messages by visiting the archive
here: www.fer3.com/arc (note that the message numbers are in the far-right
column so you could compile a list of the missing numbers from your email
and grab just the ones that you have missed).

Just to repeat this so people (not you) don't start getting paranoid: THERE
IS NO SYSTEMATIC PROBLEM. NO MESSAGES ARE MISSING FROM ACCOUNTS THAT I
TRACK. NO MESSAGES ARE MISSING FROM THE ARCHIVE. :-)

So what could explain the problem? I doubt that the fact that the messages
were from George is actually relevant. Like most of us, George probably
tends to send messages in a batch. So if you had an email outage of some
sort at a particular time that just happened to correspond to the time when
he was sending messages, it might create the impression that the problem is
somehow related to his messages. An email outage can occur when a server
gets re-booted. It's usually temporary and messages are re-sent after a
while. So perhaps you will receive those messages during the next 24 hours.
A more annoying type of "outage" can be caused by email "blacklisting" which
is a form of spam-filtering performed by your service provider. This is hard
to track down since they won't even tell you that they have blocked some
emails. In this case, I would consider that unlikely since you have in fact
received some NavList messages, just not all of them.

There's nothing else that I can do on this end. Here's hoping that your
problem clears up on its own. Let me know if you discover any other patterns
or clues to what might be going on.

 -FER



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