Thanks for the heads up. I was told to look at the Forum messages.

 

Looking and remembering back to the past several years of the bikehikers group site, It is not uncommon to get more than one of the same message. Even just the other day, Saturday, that I had sent off two messages, I can see at least one other example from another member. Around the time of the Chester tour (a couple of weeks ago) I received a message from another cyclist family and great close friends, in my other cycling group questioning why I had sent several of the same messages to them spread out over about a 12 hour period involving 2 different days! Sad part for them was I included a multi-megapixl picture that probably slowed some of their mail down or maybe not. I had no knowledge it was sent several times. But they still had to read and delete it...sometimes not convenient when trying to get through the mail. I was able to see the other day the results as I, like all others in our group, were on the receiving end. Looking back at the code etc. of the messages, I can see nothing unusual. This isn't an unusual occurance as exampled just by Saturday's incoming mail. For the newcomers in the www world, this IS part of what we deal with. In 1983 with my Franklin Computer (copy of the Apple ll) I signed up for MY first experience to the www. Compuserve was the instrument to take most of us where we could at that time. I have seen a lot and learned a lot since those times. In all of these years of computers, The Point is...nothing is totally controllable. Wireless networks ARE susceptible to interference, weak, lost and strong signals, maybe an accountability worth considering more these days. Instructions to a machine to SEND will usually be accomplished, and if the machine didn't negotiate properly with the, let's say the server, then it will try again and again. If the server gets all of the "message" and the sending machine didn't get an "OK I got it" from said server and connections lost, weak failing..whatever...then the sending machine will send at its next chance till it gets the "OK" back from the receiving machine, in this case the server. This is the best way I know of how to explain one aspect of the operation of sending/receiving email. I am not here to go into any other technical detail, nor do I wish to.

 

It's clear to me, that I sent two different messages to the group, nothing more. I have never heard from, nor recall, other authors addressing the group, except for Lisa once, about their multi-received/sent email. We just accept it and move on. In a discussion this morning with another cycling group, I heard two people sharing stories about multiple emails in the last few days. Coincidence I am sure, but accept it and move on as they said they have.

 

I do subscribe to the forum group and some time ago, made it a spam entry. In this way, I have the ability to not look at the spam that comes in and if I want to see some of what I have classified as spam, I can go into that folder and read it or recover it rather than looking for the strings both past and present.  Messages to me can be direct to my email like many other bikehikers do.

 

On another note. I was called a Communist by one of our members this past week. I find that apolling and unacceptable.

 

All in all, The Sacramento Bikehikers have dished out a bitter taste of negativity in my eyes this week. Let's hope for a better week next week.

 

Nate