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Re: Missing my mail :-(

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From: Alistair Potter
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 00:00
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>     While writing OASIS we discovered that sometimes, for reaseons I can't
>explain, NOS puts some incoming mail into the outgoing folder! So when you
>log off, OASIS looks for this and places it with the rest of your incoming
>mail ready for the Post Box to index it when you next open it.
>
>>Is it truly lost forever, or can I in some way send a command 
>>which allows me to re-access the mail. Bothers me that this stuff gets
>>so close then just disappears.
>
>     NO
>>
>>Is it because the NOS/Oasis software is so busy handling all the
>>different activities send/recieve mail and send/recieve news plus MOTD
>>checks, Punt checks, Listing mail that's ready to go, searching for
>>timeservers that are too busy, trying to join the news server, trying
>>to access a mail gateway to get e-mail to Australia?
>
>
>--

Thanks a lot Phil, I was getting worried there.

Ali.

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From: Ali@land.demon.co.uk (Alistair Potter)
Subject: Re: Missing my mail :-(
Date: 1996/04/11
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