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I have been communicating directly with Stan, as recently as yesterday, with thestan at generalboats.com address.

(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

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