Re: [NTLK] Weird problem with my own postings to this list

From: Morgan Aldridge <morgant_at_makkintosshu.com>
Date: Mon May 11 2009 - 11:15:09 EDT

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 7:57 AM, Lord Groundhog <LordGroundhog@gmail.com> wrote:
> ~~~ On 2009/05/11 12:15, Morgan Aldridge at morgant@makkintosshu.com wrote
>
>> For better or worse, Gmail tries to be "smart" about mailing lists and
>> so any message you post will not appear anywhere until a reply to it
>> is sent. For some reason, they think you wouldn't want to see your own
>> messages since it's in the Sent folder.
>>
>> I primarily use Gmail accounts at this point and this issue drives me
>> nuts at times.
>
> What you say makes sense, *except* that it doesn't happen to me, ever,
> except in the circumstances I described in my previous post.
>
> For example, my previous post went out at 08:57 BST (time in my time zone as
> assigned by the server) and appeared back in my inbox on my computer (in
> Entourage 2004 for Mac) at 09:08 BST, a delay of 9 minutes due in large part
> because I didn't check again till then. Yours is the next message to the
> list, which you sent at 12:15 BST and which I picked up at 12:50 BST when I
> next checked my mail. And even your mail wasn't actually a reply to my
> post.
>
> Point is, whatever you're describing isn't what happens to me. Anyone else?
> And is this perhaps also a question of settings within Gmail or the
> behaviour of ISPs or what? I'd love to really understand this.

From what I understand, this trying to be is in the web interface, but
I haven't checked to see if they show up in IMAP (I don't use POP).

Sonny, I think you're seeing the same thing as I am, are you using
Gmail's web interface too?

Morgan Aldridge

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