Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:11:37 -0600
Reply-To: miguel pacheco <mundopacheco@GMAIL.COM>
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From: miguel pacheco <mundopacheco@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Is G-mail arguing with Gerry again?
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At the risk of getting spanked, I have to say.......Mike, I've blamed you
for writing creatively, in the past, and I blame you again.
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Mike Elliott <camping.elliott@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I'm now of a mind to agree with Bill on this one. Gerry and gmail
> sometimes get into arguments which affect some select group of
> subscribers w/o affecting others. "Rolling blackouts," as it were.
> There's no rhyme or reason, no explanation. I offer the suggestion that
> were these blackouts properly transformed and mapped, we might see
> something wonderful not unlike those mysterious tears that appear to
> fall from the eyes of certain icons during religious holidays. But until
> that sublimely ineffable moment when All Is Revealed, I hereby elect to
> simply accept the black outs just as a simple cow accepts the rain that
> sometimes falls on her back -- and keep my yap shut about it. I invite
> my gmail brethren and sisthren to do likewise.
>
> --
>
> Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
> 71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
> 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
> 74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
> KG6RCR
>
> On 3/21/2008 12:30 PM Bill Glenn wrote:
>
> > This topic seems to come up with some regularity. No doubt there is
> some
> > kind of problem from time to time, but talking about it here serves no
> > purpose since the cause is unknown, consequently so are possible
> solutions.
> >
> > I too use g-mail, but it doesn't really matter to me when I receive the
> > postings from Gerry because I'm not going to monitor my e-mail on an
> hourly
> > basis, nor am I going to read the postings in a timely fashion as they
> come
> > in; I have other things to do, and I read the postings later, as time
> > permits.
> >
> > For those of you who seem to go through withdrawals when your Gerry fix
> > fails to be delivered when you think it should, it's a simple matter to
> go
> > straight to the archives(http://gerry.vanagon.com/archives/vanagon.html
> ),
> > and click on the current week to see if what's there is more-recent than
> > what you have received; you will then know if your Gerry traffic is
> being
> > delayed or lost.
> >
> > In view of that alternative, discussion here is of negligable benefit to
> G-
> > mail users, and certainly of no benefit at all to the majority of the
> > thousand-member Vanagon list.
> >
>
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Gracias,
Miguel
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