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
 ---

 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


THIS MESSAGE (3 emails in a row) HAS ARRIVED TWICE SO FAR. THE AUSSIE IS
CORRECT AND HIS REASON FOR COMPLAINT IS REPRESENTS BOTHERSOME DUPLICATION.
robert keenan

It is not me. I send out only one.
What O.S. are you using? What email program are you using.
Try Thunderbird.

It is probably not Yahoo. What country are you in?

Paul Lamar