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Mon, 25 May 1998 02:13:40 -0500
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>         Have been running two lists out of the same account for a couple of
> years.  ICWP-L and CREATE-L are both housed in an account at buffalostate.edu
> All of a sudden, beginning three weeks ago,[log in to unmask]
> can not get messages to me regarding only one of the lists.  Jim Gerland was

Others have addressed this but I have questions.  You use ONLY
  [log in to unmask] address for access to your account?  That is
the address you use for both lists in your list headers ( at a cursory
glance that's what I see in the headers, but we know what my cursory
glances are worth)?  However, you do list other addresses. You are getting
everything just fine *except* the material for this one list?
You ALWAYS access in the same manner?  Those other addresses are just
aliases?

I have had accounts on VM/VMS machines at two sites and I've had that
happen to me both places, for those accounts.  Did you have a crash of
whataever sort (glitz in the phone line will crash your connection)?  An
inelegant exit may leave a process running, which would mean that you are
the person blocking you from getting your mail ("le-e-ts do the time warp
agaaiinnn!").  I had that happen to me on two different VM/VMS systems. I
also had it happen because, not knowing my way that well around the
system, I did something I oughtn't, which I realized immediately but I
couldn't figure out how to UNdo it. I've also had it happen on UNIX but
there I know what to do, look for the open process and kill it.  On VM all
I know to do, once I've reached total frustration, is yell for help from
the sys. admins.

I strongly urge you to contact your people at buffalostate or snybuffaa
or what ever it is (I wasn't aware there was more than one state supported
university in Buffalo, N.Y.).  Your local people should be able to fix it
for you (and they may have done it to you themselves, had that happen to
me also).

I would rather think that, somehow or other, something was left open
blocking messages from just this one list than that someone is engaing in
deliberate sabotage.

Douglas

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