New plants from Plant Delights: MAIL LOOP?

[David Guillet]

Dear Louise,

Much thanks for your suggestion. I have done as you advised and will now
wait and keep my fingers crossed.  I did check with my university computer
center and they said others in the university had reported the same problem
earlier this week.  Their response was to reboot our server.  This
presumably will correct a timing problem that is causing the repeat
messaging. As they put it, the server keeps trying to send me the message
and it encounters a busy signal so it tries again.  They said to wait and
the problem would eventually go away.  But I've been waiting ...

It isn't a big deal but I would much rather read the 25 messages today
on Alpine-L and read the plant catalogs than keep deleting messages ...
Anyway my arisaema wallichiana have finally stuck their pointed heads out of
the soil in their pots, the last of the bunch that came out of my fridge a
few months back.  I was waiting for those buggers ...

Thanks again!

David
----- Original Message -----
From: "Louise Parsons" <parsont at PEAK.ORG>
To: <ARISAEMA-L at NIC.SURFNET.NL>
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 8:14 PM
Subject: Re: New plants from Plant Delights: MAIL LOOP?


> David,  you may be the victim of a mail loop and if so something must be
> done to stop it: Expand the headers of the repeated message as follows:
>
> Using your Outlook express as follows: With the offending message open:
> Under File, choose Properties, then click on the Details tab in the
> properties dialog box for the offending message. (In older versions, try
> View, then Options)
>
> The "full headers" or "geek headers" should appear with all of the routing
> information.  This information is the most helpful to any administrator
who
> can break the loop. Copy this in its entirety into a new message body
thus:
> "Paint" the entire message by left-clicking and dragging on your mouse,
> then holding the Ctrl key while you hit the C key.  Click in the new
> message body with Ctrl and V to paste the message.
>
> Send your fully copied message with a brief explanation of the problem to:
>
> POSTMASTER at AOL.NET (Yes, that's .NET, not .Com)
>
> Send a carbon copy to the help desk or postmaster of your own ISP
(Internet
> Service Provider). If you are unsure how to get help on your end, copy it
to:
>
> Postmaster at CUA.EDU
>
> Hope that this helps.  I suspect that this is a problem between your
server
> and AOL.  I won't venture to say whose "fault" it is, but AOL problems are
> being reported on several of the admin lists that I am on.  It may take
the
> cooperation of both servers and any intermediates such as gateway servers
> to break the loop.
>
> Good luck Dave!  I am sure that we would rather be swooning over arisaema
> offerings such as that A. kishidae Silver Pattern in the new "Plant
> Delights" catalog than messing around with this stuff ::smiles::
>
> All the best,  Louise
>
> At 04:43 PM 1/11/01 -0500, you wrote:
> >I have been getting this message about every 30 minutes for the last day
or
> >so.  I have e-mailed Speicert to no avail. Would whoever is responsible
for
> >this please stop the messaging
> >
> >David Guillet
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Greg Speichert" <GSpeichert at AOL.COM>
> >To: <ARISAEMA-L at NIC.SURFNET.NL>
> >Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 10:18 PM
> >Subject: Re: New plants from Plant Delights
> >
> >
> > > Dear Bonaventure Magrys
> > >     I have tons of Arundo donax Variegated . I can send you some in
the
> > > spring.
> > >
> > > All My Best
> > > Greg Speichert
> > > PO Box 154
> > > St. John, IN 46373
> > > Gspeichert at aol.com
> > > 219-374-9419
> > >
>