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Re: HELP - listserver problems

• Posted by Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen <nieuwen at POP.XS4ALL.NL> Jul 08, 1997
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> Yes that is happening to me too.
> I also notice that the datestamp of messages is that of the original
> sender, not the date/time of the listserver.
        I do not think that the mail server does that..
        It is your ISP and Mail provider that do that..

        And about the time, that would be helped if the mail server changed
time stamps to it's own time.... or if we would all use a good mail
program and include location information in our configurarion (i
believe if everybody sets his/her configuration right, it should
work, but i haven't spend too much time on that)
        But yes, there is a time difference of i believe 7 hours between
Holland and the US.

> IMO, there are far too many personal messages, and many messages are far
> too long (excessive quoting, usually).  Over the weekend there were over a
> hundred.
>
> This group should get on the Usenet system
> really soon.   That would allow for selective reading and also keep the
> messages
> in threads and in posting order.
        Yep, but then it is hard to reply personal..
        And then Euphoria newsgroup has already got some messages that are
not about Euphoria at all, but are advertisement (SPAM, i believe
most call it)
        And you can not be sure that everybody recieves your message.
        (I mean your message header)
        I don't know exactly how it works, but i guess it doesn't keep all
the messages forever does it? A mail provider does...
        ANd you can choose (if you have a descent mail program) to only
download the headers... and then you can select the ones you want to
see.
        I am using Pegasus Mail, but if you are using Netscape Communicator
you won't even see a difference between you mail box or a newsgroup..
        So only the dates would be a good reason to use newsgroups....

Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen
nieuwen at xs4all.nl