[Rhodes22-list] stan's email issue

[PBR]

Stan,
I never see my own postings either, until someone responds.  I do get a
bounce message that my email titled xyz was received by the list.  I am
using gmail.  And I do have them in my sent mail.
Patrick R.

On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 3:08 PM stan <stan at generalboats.com> wrote:

> Peter, I rest my case.   The test email to you (below) arrived in my
> sent file with no issues but never came into my inbox as a List member
> (which I think I am, being an owner of a dozen or more Rhodes).
>
> If /*you*/ do not receive this email, I rest my second case.
>
> ss
>
>
> On 6/28/21 2:24 PM, stan wrote:
> > (Peter, I am sending this to you via the Rhodes list to see if you and
> > I both get it or you get it and I don't or no one gets it)
> >
> >
> > Peter, thanks for your note and I do care to comment on it since it is
> > way above my pay grade and your coverage of these kinds of issues is
> > often understandable, even by those of us brought up on IBM electric
> > typewriters.
> >
> > For the past month or so I seem to be able to continue seeing emails
> > sent by others to others on the Rhodes List, however I no longer see
> > emails sent BY me to others on the List.  So I sent a test email to
> > the List.  Three 3 List readers said my test got to them via the
> > List.  So it seems my emails arrive at the List post office and all
> > List members see them (I am assuming), except me (I am not assuming).
> > Thus I have become unsure as to whether any mail I send to the list is
> > getting through since my mail to the List does not show in my inbox.
> >
> > I do not believe my email address is in any way connected to this
> > issue.  What seems like only 100 years ago, Michael Meltzer and I sat
> > down in his smoke filled NYC office and argued over the making of the
> > GB web site; me being a jack of all trades, master of none, was at
> > that time carrying a union card as a member of the radio and tv
> > directors guild with a little copywriting on the side, Michael, having
> > been born with a computer in his mouth, did the first web site and
> > some time later set me up with email. My current memory is that my
> > address from that start was stan at generalboats.com. I liked his email
> > set up since it was 100% free and I was born during the great
> > depression.   Plus anyone who worked for GB did not have to have their
> > own address, they merely put their name before the @ sign.   Some
> > where along our historic path, (I believe when Michael and others
> > created the Rhodes chat room) with the address
> > rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org I think they changed my address for a
> > better match: stan at rhodes22.com. I did like that address as it was
> > more descriptive of what we do. I was not thrilled with the new
> > provider; the number of attachments were restricted and even my draft
> > file shrunk. Luckily dumb luck had no one bothering to cancel the
> > original stan at generalboats.com address.  So when the rhodes22.com
> > email suddenly stopped and no one could figure out why, it became do
> > or die time; survival was linked to the mountains of daily emails.
> > Rhodies jumped in with several stop gap addresses including a
> > stan at gmail.  Not at home with their formats, I thought I would try the
> > original stan at generalboats.com for the hell of it.  Damn if it didn't
> > work, just like the old days, no costs, no restrictions. That was 4 or
> > 5 years ago and it has continued faultless.   It's provider: Thunderbird.
> >
> > What additional info might you need?  I am inclined to guess that I
> > caused the problem at this end by having inadvertently pushed some
> > keyboard key that gave Thunderbird the idea that I did not want to see
> > my emails I sent to the list ?
> >
> > stan
> >
> >
> > On 6/26/21 2:06 PM, Frank Goldsmith wrote:
> >> I have been communicating directly with Stan, as recently as
> >> yesterday, with thestan at generalboats.com address.
> >>
> >> Frank
> >>
> >> Sent from my iPhone
> >>
> >>> On Jun 26, 2021, at 1:56 PM, Peter Nyberg<peter at sunnybeeches.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> Stan,
> >>>
> >>> Care to comment on this?  We want the website to have your best
> >>> contact information.  The 'General Boats' page currently lists your
> >>> email address asstan at generalboats.com.
> >>>
> >>> --Peter
> >>>
> >>>
> >
>
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