Attn: Mark Leech (and Neil Barker) - TOTP Database

[Serendipity]

Sorry to bother you.

Have you received my 2 e-mails, Mark, one sent yesterday, the other this morning from my new e-mail address?

For some reason, which is beyond me, my previous e-mail address suddenly became corrupt on Saturday and has remained inaccessible since, so I had to change to a new e-mail address. I thought I should let you know the situation in case these e-mails haven't reached you and you were wondering why you hadn't heard from me, as you sent me a blue texted e-mail on Tuesday at 6.38pm, which I replied to on Wednesday at 6.46pm. After trying several times unsuccessfully on Saturday then Sunday morning to access my e-mail account, I then created a brand new one and replied to you yesterday at 12.56pm explaining the problem about my old e-mail account and what type of programs I have on my computer, in answer to your Tuesday question and I sent my last message this morning at 8.21am, in case my original message hadn't reached you about the Notepad and Wordpad dilemnas.

I appreciate your offer and I'm very sorry for any inconvenience caused to you by all this, as the corrupted e-mail account, the limitation of attachment document kilobytes causing your 2 original messages to not reach me and the 1960s Database being partly obliterated by symbols in WordPad and too large to open with Notepad, has been a big inconvenience to you after all your efforts, but I'd be very interested in receiving it in installments, due to the limited attachment size permitted if you're still happy to send it.

I have Microsoft Works only (Word Processing, Spreadsheet and Database), together with WordPad and Notepad. I sadly don't have Microsoft Word, Excel or Access but if you could send me the Database in Notepad or convert it, in one go, or in installments, depending on the total length to Works or WordPad, I'd be eternally grateful. Notepad, WordPad or whatever's most convenient that incorporates the CTRL+F (Find) facility, as I've been waiting eagerly for the Database and it's just unfortunate that I can't operate it.

Thanks for your offer on sending me a copy of the Database and I hope to hear from you soon.

PS: To Neil Barker - In case Mark Leech doesn't use the new forum and doesn't see my message, as some people have been put off since its revision, could you please pass on this message to Mark?, as with all the above, he may not have seen my replies to him and I didn't want Mark to think I'd ignored him or for him to be put off because of the inconvenience he's had through the aforementioned explained situations. Technical glitches got in the way and prevented me from accessing my account, which in turn led to the unexpected delay in responding to Mark. I hope Mark understands, as I didn't intend for him to be inconvenienced.

All the best to you, Mark and the rest of you on the forums, which have a good mix of topics and likewise to TOTP 2.

[Mark Leech]

Serendipity,

Check your e-mail - I've had an idea.................. ;D

[Serendipity]

Mark said:

Serendipity,

Check your e-mail - I've had an idea.................. ;D

Thanks for your e-mail, Mark.

Hoping that the annoying technical fault that prevented my e-mails reaching you is now fixed, I've left a new e-mail message for you relating to the Database at: 12.17pm (their clock, which is unadjustable as it's preset is several minutes slow, as the time should have read: 12.39pm). The message said:

"Delivery Confirmation" - Your message has been sent! -To: ... (your e-mail address);
Subject: Top of the Pops Database;
Sent On: Thursday, July 3, 2003 12:17PM".

Although the above clarifies that messages are sent and doesn't guarantee e-mails arriving, I'm hoping that whatever fault was lingering around, that it's now fixed so that no more messages are lost. On this occasion, the speed between entering the site, composing a message and sending it off was very quick, the quickest to date, so there's a much bigger likelihood that my message will reach you this time, fingers crossed.

Please let me know if you receive it. I've since come across the Quote function which avoids ambiguity.

All the best,
Serendipity

[Mark Leech]

Still no e-mails

[Serendipity]

Mark said:

Still no e-mails

Thanks, Mark. I've sent 2 e-mail messages to you and sent 2 test e-mails, one with an automated response, which have both reached me.

I told my boyfriend about the technical problems and gave him my newest account details. He sent me 2 test e-mails, one to my original e-mail address and one to my newest e-mail address. Incoming mail from you and others has reached both accounts successfully but here are the results of the outcomes of mail sent by my boyfriend, which surprisingly differ for reasons unknown to me:-

Incoming mail to Address 1 (my original account): Arrived (to my surprise, I managed to re-access my original account tonight!, which was experiencing technical problems last week);

Incoming mail to Address 2 (replacement account): Nowhere in sight. Even if there'd been a delay, the mail should have arrived by now.

The above clarifies that my newest account is corrupted, for which I shall be contacting my provider about this but on the good news front, my original account is back in action, so I think we're finally onto a winner here, Mark!

[Pete Seaton]

Is it working now ??

[Serendipity]

Guest-Pete said:

Is it working now ??

Hi Pete

No, I'm afraid not. That account went berserk. It was fine at first but it got corrupted, so I ditched it and went back to my original one, which has mostly worked fine, apart from some teething troubles which affected the server. Oh well, things are fine now.