Hi Paul,
Since signing up for your news letter, I have been totally enthralled by all
the info about this fantastic engine.
I will definitely be using one for my next homebuilt.

However, I am being inundated by repeat emails on the same subject.
Every email is being sent to me three or four times.
Is there any way I can set up my email account or anything else I can do so
that I only receive each email only once?

Edwin
Melbourne
Australia

It does appear that way. We do things a bit differently than most. We attach
new
messages at the bottom of old messages so if you just look at the top you
don't see any differences.  You have to press the down arrow key to see the
new
parts.

We started that 12 years ago to preserve the chronological order and
all the information on a particular subject. This gets new comers up
to speed quickly.

The minor down side is it takes
a bit more space on a hard drive but hard drive size has exploded over time.
Back in the early days 20 meg (20,000,000) was a typical hard drive. Now 100
gig
(100,000,000,000) drives are typical. If my arithmetic is right that is
5000 times larger. A typical plain text  message is only 1,000 bytes so a
typical hard drive will hold 100 million messages. A drop in the ocean.

It is a bit like our average wage compared to the U.S. national debt:)

New drives are pushing 1000 times larger than that.

My suggestion is make thread folders on your hard drive and save the last
messages in a thread to that along with any pictures. Another way is make
dated inbox folders and export your inbox periodically. Say every six
months.

I make back ups of my inbox but I keep at least a years worth or more so I
can
easily search for subjects brought up in the past.

I also use two 500 gig hard drives to keep a back up of everything as one
hard
drive could fail. That is easy to do if one chooses the right computer box.
If you don't have the right box that can hold two hard drives one can buy
a USB external hard drive that will back up automatically. The minor down
side
is it slows you computer somewhat.

Paul Lamar
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I don't have a solution for the duplicate email problem,
but I can tell you that there is something related to
Windows 7 that is creating duplicate email messages.

I run a UNIX mail server, and I have about 800 accounts
on that server.  When I read the Rotary Engine Newsletter
using Outlook 2007 on Windows Vista, I got one message
for each post.  The same was true for several other email
lists I subscribe to.  When I upgraded to Windows 7 64-bit
with Outlook 2007, I get two copies of the Rotary Engine
Newsletter for each one sent.  I also get two copies of
each message from anyone that is using a recent version
of Mailman to support an email list (older versions of
Mailman do not generate duplicates).

Why this is happening, I have no idea.  I have traced
email through my server and I can state with confidence
that the problem is not with the sending servers (like
Rotary Engine).  I believe this is an Outlook 2007 issue
and I am in the process of building a test harness to
verify it.  Whether I can eliminate it is another issue.
It may be related to the fact that I have multiple email
addresses that flow through the same mailbox ... it is a
starting point to evaluate.  Just thought I would pass
this along so others know where to focus their efforts
in solving this problem.  Best,

Dave Stoddard

Those that are getting 3 emails what OS and email program
are you using?

I suspect free Thunder Bird will work on Windows 7.
One might try that.

Paul Lamar