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Re: starship-design: Missing letter or paradox?



> From owner-starship-design@darkwing.uoregon.edu Wed Jun 25 03:39:32 1997
> From: TLG.van.der.Linden@tip.nl (Timothy van der Linden)
> 
> Lately it seems that I've not received a few (three) letters from SD.
> 
> This may be because:
> 
> 1) The connection between the SD-server and my provider is not good.
> 
> or
> 
> 2) Some person A replies to person B while sending the letter only to 
> person B and not to SD. Then person B replies to A while quoting the 
> original letter and sends it to SD. The result is that I miss the first 
> letter.
> 

> Action to be taken:
> 
> 1) Pray to the holy God of the internet universe.
> 
> 2) Ask the people of the mailing list to pay extra attention when replying a
> letter. That is, they should sent it to SD not to the author (this seems to
> be a standard setting in some mail-programs).
> 
> Lastest case to be known:
> 
> Ken quoted:
> 
> >Okay here is where you lost me. WHY did you change frames of reference?
> 
> which was apperently written by Lee. However I never did receive a letter
> from Lee that had that line in it.
> 
> Timothy
> 
Me too! 

Forgive me the sin against the netiquette,
but the problem is important...

-- Zenon