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 you replies on the bottom.
Notice this one has been moved to the bottmom.
Don't put them on top.

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

Paul Lamar

Hi Paul,

I am good with one mail at a time coming through. Firefox or Explorer.

I had to install Explorer 7 to use Chrysler's site for training. Bloody funny
that a 25+ year mechanic is not qualified to do warranty repairs on the crap
the engineers and BEAN COUNTERS screwed up in the first place. Note I
capitalized the latter as I believe they are probably the largest part of the
problems. I guess this is progress.

Dale Davies