Hazen,
Why are you bringing this up now? How did Antares' post show up? Was
it addressed to the list?
I found Antares' post in my personal box yesterday, and because it
had escaped the filter which puts PTx posts in my PTx box, i assumed
it was directed to me personally. (Same initials, BB.) Then after you
responded to it, I noticed that yesterdays' appearance did not have
the usual PTx "Sender" stamp, that it had been sent apparently
directly by Antares, and that it was identical to one which he had
sent posted to the list. Its "To: " field did not list
"pianotech@ptg.org", rather "undisclosed recipients", which would
imply that I had received it not as a PTx subscriber but as one in a
smaller subset there of.
His original 9/15 post was in my PTx mailbox. Lord knows what (I'm
not going to say who) initiated that second transmission of the
three-week old post. I'm sure that Antares is completely innocent of
this. But we've already seen that somebody on the Pacific Rim had no
difficulty broadcasting their commercial solicitations (firehoses,
indeed!) using the PTx subscriber list and its address, but avoiding
its server, in such a way that Andy was completely unaware of this.
I'm sure that Andy's server had as little to do with this as did
Antares.
Such spurious server behavior doesn't need to feed Bill Bremmer's
sense of persecution. But as members of this email community, we need
to be aware that this kind of spookiness does happen.
Bill Ballard RPT
NH Chapter, P.T.G.
"People sitting at computer screens slap their foreheads and pound
keyboards frantically. A technical support representative wearing a
telephone headset calmly asks, 'Have you tried re-formatting your
hard drive?' "
...........from "The Trade Show Talk that Wasn't" by Stephen
Manes, NYTimes 11/18/97
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