concern that e-mail getting through

[R. Murphey]

I sent a response to a question earlier today, and never received my own 
e-mail back from the list.

After checking the archives, I saw that it had made it (and later I 
received a reply to my message), but I still haven't received my 
original post.



Fairlight wrote:
> 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->