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Message no. 1
From: MC23 <mc23@**********.COM>
Subject: Duplicate Posts and Revised List
Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 13:15:18 -0400
Ok, maybe the revised list Friday will cure this bizarre random
duplicate postings. My real question for right now is how will the
transfer from current list to resubscribed list going to be handled? I
don't care to miss any posts and I typically work a 12 hour day Friday.
Will there be overlapping subscriptions for the transfer, or
pre-resubscribing or what?

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Ancient cultures believed that names held great power, personal names
more so and they were guarded very closely. To protect themselves, they
answered to another name, because if another discovered their real name,
it could be used against them.
History repeats itself.
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I am MC23
Message no. 2
From: Ereskanti <Ereskanti@***.COM>
Subject: Re: Duplicate Posts and Revised List
Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 13:22:05 EDT
In a message dated 5/25/98 12:19:26 PM US Eastern Standard Time,
mc23@**********.COM writes:

> Ok, maybe the revised list Friday will cure this bizarre random
> duplicate postings. My real question for right now is how will the
> transfer from current list to resubscribed list going to be handled? I
> don't care to miss any posts and I typically work a 12 hour day Friday.
> Will there be overlapping subscriptions for the transfer, or
> pre-resubscribing or what?
>
I believe we are just going to all "resubscribe" to the list itself. All
inbound mail I guess could be "Held" again like last weekend, and a single
message could be sent out to the "old" list, informing everyone of the
changes. After that message is sent out, the "old list" of addy's is
destroyed or archived and not to be touched again.

Then everyone just starts resubscribing, and after a given amount of time, the
"Held" letters are allowed to flow into the "New List".

-K (thoughts???)
Message no. 3
From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: Duplicate Posts and Revised List
Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 20:33:45 +0100
MC23 said on 13:15/25 May 98...

> Ok, maybe the revised list Friday will cure this bizarre random
> duplicate postings. My real question for right now is how will the
> transfer from current list to resubscribed list going to be handled? I
> don't care to miss any posts and I typically work a 12 hour day Friday.
> Will there be overlapping subscriptions for the transfer, or
> pre-resubscribing or what?

The way I understand it, the existing lists (shadowrn@********.itribe.net
et al) will just stay where they are, but we'll all get kicked off of them
by Mark -- IOW he'll reset the subscribers list this coming Friday. Then
you re-subscribe once you've received the "You have been removed from the
ShadowRN list" message, and then all should work as it does now.

Unless I missed something, that's what's going to happen if you ask me.

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Message no. 4
From: Alfredo B Alves <dghost@****.COM>
Subject: Re: Duplicate Posts and Revised List
Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 13:37:15 -0500
On Mon, 25 May 1998 13:22:05 EDT Ereskanti <Ereskanti@***.COM> writes:
>In a message dated 5/25/98 12:19:26 PM US Eastern Standard Time,
>mc23@**********.COM writes:
<SNIP>
>> duplicate postings. My real question for right now is how will the
>> transfer from current list to resubscribed list going to be handled?
I
<SNIP>

>I believe we are just going to all "resubscribe" to the list itself.
All
>inbound mail I guess could be "Held" again like last weekend, and a
single
>message could be sent out to the "old" list, informing everyone of the
>changes. After that message is sent out, the "old list" of addy's is
>destroyed or archived and not to be touched again.
>
>Then everyone just starts resubscribing, and after a given amount of
time, the
>"Held" letters are allowed to flow into the "New List".
>
>-K (thoughts???)

Sounds good, If I understand this correctly ... You put the list on hold,
unsubscribe everyone (or this first part in reverse order), then everyone
resubscribes, and after a day or so the list is unheld and no one misses
a post? :)

D.Ghost
(aka Pixel, Tantrum, and RuPixel)

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Message no. 5
From: Adam J <fro@***.AB.CA>
Subject: Re: Duplicate Posts and Revised List
Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 17:05:31 -0600
At 13:37 25/05/98 -0500, you wrote:

>Sounds good, If I understand this correctly ... You put the list on hold,
>unsubscribe everyone (or this first part in reverse order), then everyone
>resubscribes, and after a day or so the list is unheld and no one misses
>a post? :)

If nobody is subscribed there will be no posts.

So: Everyone is unsubscribed. People resubscribe when they get the time.
Conversation restarts where it was left off.

-Adam
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Message no. 6
From: MC23 <mc23@**********.COM>
Subject: Re: Duplicate Posts and Revised List
Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 02:18:45 -0400
Once upon a time, Adam J wrote;

>If nobody is subscribed there will be no posts.
>
>So: Everyone is unsubscribed. People resubscribe when they get the time.
>Conversation restarts where it was left off.

But if I can't resubscribe for a while I miss all the posts after the
current list gets scrapped. There has got to be some kind of work around
for us diehards who won't be there at the moment of change.

<><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>

Ancient cultures believed that names held great power, personal names
more so and they were guarded very closely. To protect themselves, they
answered to another name, because if another discovered their real name,
it could be used against them.
History repeats itself.
Welcome to the Digital Age.
I am MC23
Message no. 7
From: Robert Watkins <robert.watkins@******.COM>
Subject: Re: Duplicate Posts and Revised List
Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 16:33:33 +1000
MC23 writes:
>Once upon a time, Adam J wrote;
>
>>If nobody is subscribed there will be no posts.
>>
>>So: Everyone is unsubscribed. People resubscribe when they get the time.
>>Conversation restarts where it was left off.
>
>But if I can't resubscribe for a while I miss all the posts after the
>current list gets scrapped. There has got to be some kind of work around
>for us diehards who won't be there at the moment of change.


Either:
a) Use the logs.
b) Stay online and wait... sleep is for lozerz. :)
c) Send a money order (cheques bounce) to Adam, for $US50, so that he can
subscribe you instantly after he has scrapped the existing subscriptions.
Note that amounts for less than $US50 will cause him to subscribe you
_before_ he has scrapped the existing subscriptions. Amounts greater than
$US50 will be used to establish the order in which he will resubscribe
people. Note that sending such a money order would entitle you to add the
following title to your .sig: ShadowRN List Sucker

Personally, I'm using option c. :)

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sig deleted to conserve electrons. robert.watkins@******.com
Message no. 8
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: Duplicate Posts and Revised List
Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 11:15:49 +0100
And verily, did MC23 hastily scribble thusly...
|
|Once upon a time, Adam J wrote;
|
|>If nobody is subscribed there will be no posts.
|>
|>So: Everyone is unsubscribed. People resubscribe when they get the time.
|>Conversation restarts where it was left off.
|
|But if I can't resubscribe for a while I miss all the posts after the
|current list gets scrapped. There has got to be some kind of work around
|for us diehards who won't be there at the moment of change.

This is worrying me...
I can't stand it when I come back to the list only to find... nothing...
I *HATE* list crashes, and the fact that I know that it's going to happen
when I might not be there to do it only makes it worse....

PLEASE... Come up with a solution for us addicts....

Please?


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Message no. 9
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: Duplicate Posts and Revised List
Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 11:07:06 +0100
And verily, did Adam J hastily scribble thusly...
|If nobody is subscribed there will be no posts.
|
|So: Everyone is unsubscribed. People resubscribe when they get the time.
|Conversation restarts where it was left off.

What day is this going to happen again?
I'm off at the TA all weekend, and I don't want to miss anything.

(PSSSSSST... Adam.... Could you resub me? Please? Pretty please?)

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Message no. 10
From: Ereskanti <Ereskanti@***.COM>
Subject: Re: Duplicate Posts and Revised List
Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 09:31:28 EDT
In a message dated 5/26/98 1:21:21 AM US Eastern Standard Time,
mc23@**********.COM writes:

> >So: Everyone is unsubscribed. People resubscribe when they get the time.
> >Conversation restarts where it was left off.
>
> But if I can't resubscribe for a while I miss all the posts after the
> current list gets scrapped. There has got to be some kind of work around
> for us diehards who won't be there at the moment of change.
>
Yeah, there is. It's called the Archives...
-K
Message no. 11
From: Ereskanti <Ereskanti@***.COM>
Subject: Re: Duplicate Posts and Revised List
Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 09:34:46 EDT
In a message dated 5/26/98 1:37:52 AM US Eastern Standard Time,
robert.watkins@******.COM writes:

> Either:
> a) Use the logs.
> b) Stay online and wait... sleep is for lozerz. :)
> c) Send a money order (cheques bounce) to Adam, for $US50, so that he can
> subscribe you instantly after he has scrapped the existing subscriptions.
> Note that amounts for less than $US50 will cause him to subscribe you
> _before_ he has scrapped the existing subscriptions. Amounts greater than
> $US50 will be used to establish the order in which he will resubscribe
> people. Note that sending such a money order would entitle you to add the
> following title to your .sig: ShadowRN List Sucker
>
ROFLMFAO
-K
Message no. 12
From: "Ojaste,James [NCR]" <James.Ojaste@**.GC.CA>
Subject: Re: Duplicate Posts and Revised List
Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 10:42:50 -0400
Robert Watkins wrote:
>Either:
>a) Use the logs.
>b) Stay online and wait... sleep is for lozerz. :)
>c) Send a money order (cheques bounce) to Adam, for $US50, so that he can

Just one small detail - Adam is Canadian. Sending him C$75 is roughly
equivalent and much more convenient... :-)

>subscribe you instantly after he has scrapped the existing subscriptions.
>Note that amounts for less than $US50 will cause him to subscribe you
>_before_ he has scrapped the existing subscriptions. Amounts greater than
>$US50 will be used to establish the order in which he will resubscribe
>people. Note that sending such a money order would entitle you to add the
>following title to your .sig: ShadowRN List Sucker
>
>Personally, I'm using option c. :)

I'll just use option d) Wait until I regain access to this email account
on Monday when I can resub. I can't reasonably access this account
from home, and I don't want to overload my poor machine with the 500+
megs of mail that I currently have archived (well, SR isn't most of
that, but there's several weeks of SR that I haven't gotten around
to archiving yet...) :-)

James Ojaste

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