Wednesday's newsletter HAS been sent..
..when will it arrive? And how often?
Eddie Mair | 12:27 UK time, Wednesday, 16 May 2007
..when will it arrive? And how often?
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I'll put on the kettle then, Eddie. Monday's came back for another biscuit, then said it was heading west.
Is this one on Work Experience, or a Gap Year?
Eddie...I am betting 3 copies, 4.30 am on Sunday 27th, at 6 to 1 odds on favourite....can anyone better the odds?
Today is Wednesday and the Newsletter has been sent, I wonder who the lucky receipient is ? They will be so up to speed, I have just received two identical copies of Mondays, so am a little off the pace.
I guess by the pricking in my thumbs it willl turn up at 1432; possibly via carrier pigeon. Or 3.
Just got Mondays Newsletter twice - most bizarre but par for the course
Ah ha! So it did go on to Bournemouth after it left me. A Grand Tour, perhaps.
Heres the bit that tells me where Mondays newsletter went. Interestingly the one sent second arrived first!
Return-Path:
Received: from n079.sc1.he.tucows.com (64.97.168.35) by n006.sc1.cp.net (7.2.066)
id 451F4EF002C92CE7 for mitchell.optometrist at virgin dotnet; Wed, 16 May 2007 09:32:03 +0000
Received: from mailgw2.mh.bbc.co.uk (132.185.144.142) by n079.sc1.he.tucows.com (7.2.069.1)
id 4644AB0C0033E3AF for mitchell.optometrist at virgin dot net; Wed, 16 May 2007 09:32:03 +0000
Received: from lists.bbc.co.uk (lists0-mgt.mh.bbc.co.uk [192.168.232.82])
by mailgw2.mh.bbc.co.uk (8.13.7/8.13.7) with ESMTP id l4G9Sll5005463
for ; Wed, 16 May 2007 10:32:02 +0100 (BST)
Received: (from root@localhost)
by lists.bbc.co.uk (8.12.11/8.12.10) id l4FGhVGr012178
for mitchell.optometrist at virgin dot net; Tue, 15 May 2007 17:43:31 +0100 (BST)
Received: (from majordom@localhost)
by lists2.mh.bbc.co.uk (8.12.10/8.12.10) id l4ECT1ph004941
for pm-outgoing; Mon, 14 May 2007 13:29:01 +0100 (BST)
Received: from lists1.mh.bbc.co.uk (lists1-mgt.mh.bbc.co.uk [192.168.232.83])
by lists2.mh.bbc.co.uk (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id l4ECT1Y2004934
for ; Mon, 14 May 2007 13:29:01 +0100 (BST)
Received: from mailgw2.mh.bbc.co.uk (mailgw2.mh.bbc.co.uk [132.185.144.142])
by lists1.mh.bbc.co.uk (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id l4ECT0k2027632
for ; Mon, 14 May 2007 13:29:00 +0100 (BST)
Received: from dev1.reith.bbc.co.uk (dev1.reith.bbc.co.uk [10.152.1.141])
by mailgw2.mh.bbc.co.uk (8.13.7/8.13.7) with ESMTP id l4ECT0TT027795
for ; Mon, 14 May 2007 13:29:00 +0100 (BST)
Received: (from nobody@localhost)
by dev1.reith.bbc.co.uk (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) id NAA09272;
Mon, 14 May 2007 13:28:49 +0100 (BST)
Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 13:28:49 +0100 (BST)
Message-Id:
Received: from 10.129.29.49 by dev1.reith.bbc.co.uk with HTTP;
Mon, 14 May 2007 13:28:48 BST
To: pm@lists.bbc.co.uk
From: PM
Subject: Monday's PM newsletter
Reply-to:
Sender: owner-pm@lists.bbc.co.uk
Precedence: bulk
X-Expanded-By: Expander, v0.5, patricke
Fantastic - I've just got 2 copies of Monday's as well. You really are spoiling us! Has Andrew got all the lard off yet?
Great Blog.
A few minutes out!! But did arrive by email and only the once...so far
....STOP PRESS......WEDNESDAY NEWSLETTER.....ITS ARRIVED!!!!
......thud, sound of someone fainting...tee..hee
Mine's not here yet.
Stewart M: I now know why the Monday Newsletter left my house whistling "I've been everywhere man, I've been everywhere, man ......"
It's HERE!!!
(cue x-files theme)
Question: How does one unsubscribe from a newsletter that doesn't arrive or isn't sent?
PS Just kidding
Clearly diverted by its internal satnav today, by the sound of it. It's probably languishing in a river ford somewhere between Cornwall and Sussex.
Todays newsletter has arrived
Timeprint on email : 11.44am...
arrived between 3.00pm and 3.25pm
Great to see Scotland at last being a possible lead story, I look forward to hearing a decent in depth piece... please?
Regards
john
Stewart M @ 7
As I spent ages trying to find out the wherabouts of Monday's newsletter, with little success, are you able to translate *that* into something a little less technical?!
Big Sister,
could be this one started off up north and is making its way south as opposed to Mondays that started in the south and then headed west?
well I got Mondays twice this morning but today's has yet to appear. Shame that, especially if Scotland has a major story, could it be the great AS we ask ourselves.
Re: stewart - Thank you - that's what the problem was then :-)
Stewart M - You do realise that we all know your email address now!
I never got round to saying how disappointed I was that PM only won "best interactive show".
I love your interview technique Eddie. Listening to interviews is akin to listening to a very small play unfold that has a big plot twist due to your subtle nature. No shouting, just giving them rope and then like iron fist in a silk glove, POW, they get a one, right in the mooey.
My favourite being the "Cameras with speakers" and your letting the woman gleefully relate how good they were. A moments silence and "Should a fat person be shouted at for eating crisps?". Her reaction (against the ropes, you pummelling her politely) was absolutely excellent. I could not stop laughing and it was a pure bonus to hear that... she was fat.
"No, we shouldn't shout at fat people for eating crisps. I am fat and I would find it abhorrent"
Eddie continued "yes but obesity, isn't that the single most expensive problem that the NHS has to deal with".
Brilliant and not at all aggressive
I never got round to saying how disappointed I was that PM only won "best interactive show".
I love your interview technique Eddie. Listening to interviews is akin to listening to a very small play unfold that has a big plot twist due to your subtle nature. No shouting, just giving them rope and then like iron fist in a silk glove, POW, they get a one, right in the mooey.
My favourite being the "Cameras with speakers" and your letting the woman gleefully relate how good they were. A moments silence and "Should a fat person be shouted at for eating crisps?". Her reaction (against the ropes, you pummelling her politely) was absolutely excellent. I could not stop laughing and it was a pure bonus to hear that... she was fat.
"No, we shouldn't shout at fat people for eating crisps. I am fat and I would find it abhorrent"
Eddie continued "yes but obesity, isn't that the single most expensive problem that the NHS has to deal with".
Brilliant and not at all aggressive
Re Marc (NBP) The clue is stewarts post was a few lines up from the bottom :-
Received: (from nobody@localhost)
Bother - I was about to put my second (unopened) copy of Monday's newsletter on eBay but it seems that there are already more than enough to go around.
Eddie - Come on, this newsletter business is getting silly. With a deadline like "PM Weds" you're not going to attract many readers - sure him and Cherie have been hitched for years.
And as for advising people who want to unsubscribe to send a message containing the following "unsubscsribe isihac" - that's very, very naughty!
RJD
re: Stewart M - You do realise that we all know your email address now
you must need your eyes testing me ol' mucker
DI Wyman - have you done that guttering yet?
And the Fifi in-box pinged the arrival of Wednesday's newsletter at ... quarter past four!
Life in the slow lane.
;o)
Hmm... malicious posting, after hours of no-posting. Hmmm....
Fifi
Dr H
re: done that guttering yet?
...wot, with these feet....?
Got here at 1622 and was read after I'd listened to the programme. Didn't matter though, 'cos as a result of breaking news and Matthew Parris' astonishing revelation that MPs are cynically jumping on a media bandwagon (doh! that never happened before) it bore little resemblance to the show I heard.
In a nutshell, the path Monday's newsletters took was:
Eddie -> dev1.reith.bbc.co.uk
-> mailgw2.mh.bbc.co.uk
-> lists1.mh.bbc.co.uk
-> lists2.mh.bbc.co.uk (all on Monday)
-> lists.bbc.co.uk (Tuesday)
-> mailgw2.mh.bbc.co.uk (Wednesday)
-> me
lists.bbc.co.uk appears to be the bottleneck.
Checking through today's (Wednesday), the trip from lists2 to lists took 45 minutes (ooh err), and from lists to mailgw2 took a couple of hours.
Marc The Blog Prince, No I cant translate the gobbledegook. But Jonnie seems to have an idea. And yes I know my e mail was in there. But thats probbaly no worse than the posts with web page links.
Miffth seems to understand this gobbledegook better (see above)
I'll attempt to explain what the gobbledegoook is below, as well as giving a real-world equivalent of what's going on. If the newsletter gets all blogged up again, if Eddie can point this thread out to one of the ´óÏó´«Ã½ network technicians, they might be able to work out what's going on and how to fix it permanently (apart from ripping out the list server and dropping it from the top of the news centre).
With any email, if you click on the option to "Show full headers", the header section of the email (the bit that shows From: Date: To: Subject: etc.) expands, with a lot of Received: headers.
These received headers show the route the email took from sender to receiver - showing all the computers the email was looked at en-route, together with a timestamp. Each Received header follows a standard format:
Received: from (the computer that had it last) by (the computer that's currently got it) for (where it's trying to go) (timestamp)
That probably still didn't make any sense to you, so let's try a real-world analogy:
Imagine you're sending a postcard to Eddie. At every sorting office between you and him, they stamp it with their location and time. Hence when Eddie gets it, he can see which sorting offices the postcard passed through, and if it stayed at a sorting office for an unreasonably long time.
The newsletter follows a similar route, but at one of the sorting offices, lots of copies of the postcard are made - one for each subscriber.
At a rough guess, it's this sorting office which has been the cause of the problems.
-oOo-
Just wondered: does anyone else in the Beeb send out a regular newsletter at about the same time? Have they had problems?
Hmmph! No newsletter AND no blog entry today so far. I demand a refund.
Rachel,
I agree, the service is so poor these days!
You get none, then two, then one and then none again and its only 107 minutes to blast off....what a way to run a country...tsch..tsch
And I thought it was just me!
Rachel & witch....
..lets unite and take over the world...!
Can u please give me a contact re the hospital in Uganda mentioned in a PM last week.... regarding women who have been attacked by soldiers. I would like to send a donation.