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


Hi  Paul,  I use free Thunderbird on Windoze 7 works well, just at first
it used to put my replies at the bottom so after a bit of to-fro it got
quite messy, however, now I have changed and it puts the latest at the
top, thanks to a computer nerd who told me how. I also use Firefox, the
latest, I still have Explorer in case some stupid person uses the
Windoze only for a web page.
 John Burey

We want your replies on the bottom.
Notice this one has been moved to the bottom.
Don't put them on top.

You are not getting three emails in a row are you?

Paul Lamar

The other thing that happens is people respond at different times so a
posting can branch out in different directions. I don't get exact copies,
Outlook Express on XP. It is sometimes a time consuming but the system
works. The intellectual return for that trouble is priceless. Thanks Paul.

John