I'm puzzled by the results I got from a request for certain items from
the message index for a discussion group (I subscribe with Mail= Index).
I got the index (mailed at midnight last night) and sent off a request
around noon today, selecting 5 items as follows:
32396 11/04 29 From: Bo Kleve <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: National Family Database-what's the telnet
address?
32398 11/04 19 From: "Yigal M. Rechtman 1st" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Family National Database-unavailble
32404 11/04 25 From: Michael Peck <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Photo Preservation
32405 11/04 10 From: Tom Lincoln <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Bible says Genealogy a NO NO???
32419 11/04 67 From: "Juan A. Varela F." <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: SUMMARY: Brother's Keeper vs. Family Origins
In due course, I got a reply (from LISTSERV at NDSUVM1) with the wrong
items (but with the right message numbers). How could this happen? The
messages I got were undeniably from the right discussion group, and they
were, in fact, mentioned in the index I got overnight, but the numbers
apparently shifted in the 12 hours or so intervening. I no longer have
the original index, since I kept only the list of messages that I wanted.
Thus, I don't know the exact nature of the shift in the numbers. Are
the numbers merely positional labels that automatically shift up or
down if messages are manually inserted or deleted? Or are they supposed
to be permanently part of the text somewhere? I have since fetched the
entire log for the week (sigh) and found that the messages I wanted
were all shifted back by three.
John
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Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1993 12:39:26 -0600
From: BITNET list server at NDSUVM1 (1.7f) <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: File: "DATABASE OUTPUT"
To: [log in to unmask]
Extracting 5 items from the ROOTS-L archives:
>>> Item number 32396, dated 93/11/04 14:28:47 -- ALL
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1993 14:28:47 -0500
Reply-To: "Yigal M. Rechtman 1st" <[log in to unmask]>
Sender: ROOTS-L Genealogy List <[log in to unmask]>
From: "Yigal M. Rechtman 1st" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: On-Line Libraries
...
>>> Item number 32398, dated 93/11/03 22:38:48 -- ALL
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1993 22:38:48 LCL
Reply-To: Deb Koplen <[log in to unmask]>
Sender: ROOTS-L Genealogy List <[log in to unmask]>
Comments: Warning -- original Sender: tag was [log in to unmask]
From: Deb Koplen <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: ARNOLD
...
>>> Item number 32404, dated 93/11/04 15:56:00 -- ALL
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1993 15:56:00 EDT
Reply-To: [log in to unmask]
Sender: ROOTS-L Genealogy List <[log in to unmask]>
From: Don Chesnut <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Everton's CD-ROMs
...
>>> Item number 32405, dated 93/11/04 16:04:47 -- ALL
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1993 16:04:47 -0400
Reply-To: [log in to unmask]
Sender: ROOTS-L Genealogy List <[log in to unmask]>
Comments: A VAX cluster with VMS V5.5-2, PMDF V4.2-10, JNET V3.6 & MU V3.2
From: [log in to unmask]
Organization: University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, North Dartmouth, MA, USA
Subject: Re: On-line libraries
...
>>> Item number 32419, dated 93/10/28 14:00:00 -- ALL
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 93 14:00:00 -0700
From: [log in to unmask] (Susan White)
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Brother's Keeper Vs. Family Origins.
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