Dear Listees
I am sorry, but contrary to what I just said I would do, I am not able to
resend my snapshots post because our list administrators are too clever by
half and won't let me unless I change or add to my posting. They've even
built an automatic system for it
"If you have a good reason to resend this message to the list please alter
the text of the message in some way... Note that altering the "Subject:"
line or adding blank lines at the top or bottom of the message is not
sufficient"
Stories about one machine talking to another while something burns down
become that much more believable.
I welcome their genuine support, but I am not going to change my text or add
to it as they ask; I might have written that particular piece for them. If
it gets lost, it ain't the end of the world
In their patronising way, they think that YOU will not understand. In fact,
it is THEY who do not understand. The backup work and paperwork increases
for everyone else because their support staff don't understand. Nor is there
any point in complaining to them.
I am sure they toil away, saving us all from ourselves; but the world would
be so much better, and *much less over-populated, if that whole class of
thinkers to which this kind of thinker belongs were... well, they've already
gone forth and multiplied
Someone actually spent time writing code to check one message against
another!!!
Have a nice day now and enjoy the entire exciting range of great error
messages
L
----- Original Message -----
From: "L-Soft list server at CCLRC (1.8d)" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "Lawrence Upton" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 22 August 2001 10:57
Subject: Rejected posting to [log in to unmask]
| Your message is being returned to you unprocessed because it appears to
have
| already been distributed to the POETRYETC list. That is, a message
with
| identical text (but possibly with different mail headers) has been
posted to
| the list recently, either by you or by someone else. If you have a good
reason
| to resend this message to the list (for instance because you have been
notified
| of a hardware failure with loss of data), please alter the text of the
message
| in some way and resend it to the list. Note that altering the "Subject:"
line
| or adding blank lines at the top or bottom of the message is not
sufficient;
| you should instead add a sentence or two at the top explaining why
you are
| resending the message, so that the other subscribers understand why
they are
| getting two copies of the same message.
|