Subject: Error with Distribution list over 20

From: [email-masked] (Rex Wockner)
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 1995 20:30:15 GMT

Pine lets you make mailing lists.

For months I have used pine in the same way and now suddenly it is 
sending error messages.

I have pine mailing lists for friends. Some have only 10 names on them, 
some have perhaps 80.

When I use pine in this way, I send the message to myself and bcc the 
mailing list I have created--inserting the name of my list and letting 
pine then insert all the addresses.

For the past 2 days whenever I bcc more than about 20 addresses, pine 
gives me a "bus error" or "memory fault" error.

This error appears between the "sending message" and "message sent" 
notations. 

And even though it does finally say "message sent," in fact the messages
are not being sent. No one has received them and I have not received the 
copy to myself.

The only way to stop this, is to return to pine and bcc no more than 15 
or 20 people.

Pine always worked fine before with larger numbers of bcc's.

Please help.

[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (George Holt)
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 1995 05:35:50 GMT

Rex Wockner ([email-masked]) wrote:
: Pine lets you make mailing lists.

: For months I have used pine in the same way and now suddenly it is 
: sending error messages.

: I have pine mailing lists for friends. Some have only 10 names on them, 
: some have perhaps 80.

: When I use pine in this way, I send the message to myself and bcc the 
: mailing list I have created--inserting the name of my list and letting 
: pine then insert all the addresses.

: For the past 2 days whenever I bcc more than about 20 addresses, pine 
: gives me a "bus error" or "memory fault" error.

: This error appears between the "sending message" and "message sent" 
: notations. 

: And even though it does finally say "message sent," in fact the messages
: are not being sent. No one has received them and I have not received the 
: copy to myself.

: The only way to stop this, is to return to pine and bcc no more than 15 
: or 20 people.

: Pine always worked fine before with larger numbers of bcc's.

: Please help.

: [email-masked]

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: Rex Wockner - A Chicagoan in San Diego - A news reporter
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: Life is short. Have an adventure today.
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 I see that you are on Netcom. I have the exact same problem. I have 9 
distribution lists of 90 names each. Since Mid December I have been using 
the lists to send my stock report each market day without major problems. 
Starting last thursday I began getting inquiries as to "what happened to 
the report??" .  Since I run batch files I was not aware of the error 
messages until tonight. I ran the lists one at a time and each time got 
either a "memory fault" or a "bus error" message.  I called Netcom 
earlier this evening and was told to try the NUGLOPS Pine "Vers 3.91"
They also suggested that I get on the Netcom computer with the lightest load.

  I tried this without success, so I aclled back.  I was told that 
someone who is failiar with Pine will call me back tommorrow. Like you, I 
am able to send small lists without problem.

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