I'm now of a mind to agree with Bill on this one. Gerry and gmail
sometimes get into arguments which affect some select group of
subscribers w/o affecting others. "Rolling blackouts," as it were.
There's no rhyme or reason, no explanation. I offer the suggestion that
were these blackouts properly transformed and mapped, we might see
something wonderful not unlike those mysterious tears that appear to
fall from the eyes of certain icons during religious holidays. But until
that sublimely ineffable moment when All Is Revealed, I hereby elect to
simply accept the black outs just as a simple cow accepts the rain that
sometimes falls on her back -- and keep my yap shut about it. I invite
my gmail brethren and sisthren to do likewise.

--

Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
KG6RCR

On 3/21/2008 12:30 PM Bill Glenn wrote:

> This topic seems to come up with some regularity.  No doubt there is some
> kind of problem from time to time, but talking about it here serves no
> purpose since the cause is unknown, consequently so are possible solutions.
>
> I too use g-mail, but it doesn't really matter to me when I receive the
> postings from Gerry because I'm not going to monitor my e-mail on an hourly
> basis, nor am I going to read the postings in a timely fashion as they come
> in; I have other things to do, and I read the postings later, as time
> permits.
>
> For those of you who seem to go through withdrawals when your Gerry fix
> fails to be delivered when you think it should, it's a simple matter to go
> straight to the archives(http://gerry.vanagon.com/archives/vanagon.html),
> and click on the current week to see if what's there is more-recent than
> what you have received; you will then know if your Gerry traffic is being
> delayed or lost.
>
> In view of that alternative, discussion here is of negligable benefit to G-
> mail users, and certainly of no benefit at all to the majority of the
> thousand-member Vanagon list.
>