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bbradburry@allvantage.com wrote:

>Which brings up another question.  Does anyone have an idea what is causing
>this problem?  I am using Outlook Express.  
>

You just answered your own question. Try Thunderbird.  It's free.

>I do not have anyone blocked.  I
>get msgs from Laura fine.  Also anyone else.  Tracy has sent several and
>only two have arrived.  Apparently they are not bouncing back to Tracy.  At
>least he (or Laura) has not mentioned it.
>
Email is a bear, mostly for historical reasons.  The first really 
popular implementation over the internet was called SMTP (simple mail 
trasport protocol, and it is anything but).  When you send an email, it 
doesn't go to the person you sent it to.  It goes to your mail server 
(smtp-server.nc.rr.com, in my case).  Your mail server looks at the 
message header, and uses that to decide where it should go...which may 
be the recipients server, or an intermediate server.  If any of those 
computers are slightly misconfigured, weired things will happen.  The 
canonical implementation of SMTP, sendmail, is notoriously difficult to 
configure.

My comment about Outlook Express.  Microsoft has historically extended 
and manipulated industry standards to try to provide themselves and 
advantage...usually by breaking the standard where it interfaces with 
non-Microsoft platforms.  The internet, by design, is made up of a lot 
of interfaces between a lot of different types of platforms. Outlook 
Express is known to ignore some header fields, and has added others.  I 
know that the 'threading' header in particular has been munged, so that 
you can't carry on a conversation and have it sorted by thread.  Unless 
you have a pressing need for Outlook Express, I really do suggest 
Thunderbird or any other email client that actually tries to play nice 
with the rest of the world.

-- 
This is by far the hardest lesson about freedom. It goes against
instinct, and morality, to just sit back and watch people make
mistakes. We want to help them, which means control them and their
decisions, but in doing so we actually hurt them (and ourselves)."