little@MACOM4.ARPA (Mike Little) (10/23/87)
I don't know what's wrong, but several people have been telling me they've received multiple copies of my null message. The message was sent because the launch button is right next to the kill button (a case in point for user interface designers and missile operators). Only one copy was sent from here as far as I can tell (I only got one copy back). An interesting note about the TCP/IP list is that it takes many hours to service a single message, the null message having about six hours turnaround to myself. I have noticed delivery in excess of ten hours from origination. Made me wonder if the list is serviced singly, top to bottom. Would a divide-and- conquer technique work here (multiple mail-list machines working on divided parts of the whole list) or is this really a CPU bound situation? -Mike P.S. I do appreciate the few people who have sent me replies giving me a heads up on the empty message - thanks.
henry@utzoo.UUCP.UUCP (10/31/87)
> ... The message was sent because > the launch button is right next to the kill button (a case in point for > user interface designers and missile operators)... But for missile operators, the "launch" and "kill" buttons are the same! (Sorry, couldn't resist.) Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,pyramid}!utzoo!henry