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Re: DON'T set confirm message when posting.



>> 
>> Of late I've been receiving message confirmations such as this one. Is it
>> absolutely necessary to post them to all PaleoNet subscribers? It seems 
>> like unnecessary clutter.
>> 
>> Ben Waggoner
>> Museum of Paleontology, University of California
>> 
>> "Ecrasez l'infame!"   -- Voltaire
>> 
>> On Fri, 18 Nov 1994 DKRAUSE@EPO.SOM.SUNYSB.Edu wrote:
>> 
>> > Confirmation of reading: your message -
>> > 
>> >     Date:    18 Nov 94  8:47
>> >     To:      paleonet@nhm.ac.uk
>> >     Subject: Crassostrea species
>> > 
>> > Was read at 16:27, 18 Nov 94.
>> > 
>> > 
>> > 
>They all seem to be on the same message and I think the problem is when
>the original poster of the Crassostrea species message posted it, he had
>a confirm message on so when folks read it it confirms the message being
>read by the readers and posts it back to the list.  Check that confirm
>reading of message is OFF especially if you are using Pegasus mailer
>before you post. 
>-- 
>James F. Mahaffy                   e-mail: mahaffy@dordt.edu
>Biology Department                 phone: 712 722-6279
>Dordt College                      FAX 712 722-1198
>Sioux Center, Iowa 51250
>
>My apologize for resending confirmd massage's.
The mistake i made was that i send my quastion to DataBaseNet@nhm.ac.uk and 
when i get
my own massage back i thougt  somthing went wrong. So i resend it to
databasenet@nhm.ac.uk  Please forgive me my mistake.
With regards, Fred Bervoets