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Date:         Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:11:37 -0600
Reply-To:     miguel pacheco <mundopacheco@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         miguel pacheco <mundopacheco@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Is G-mail arguing with Gerry again?
Comments: To: Mike Elliott <camping.elliott@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To:  <47E4270E.6020004@gmail.com>
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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. > > >

-- Gracias, Miguel


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