[Virtualacorn-list] Failed to create primary surface

[stephen.hull at btinternet.com]

In message <gemini.kvn9r8002nhoy02lo.vince at softrock.co.uk>
          Vince M Hudd <vince at softrock.co.uk> wrote:

>stephen.hull at btinternet.com wrote:
>> In message <50d37acff3j.mccartney at blueyonder.co.uk>
>>           John McCartney <j.mccartney at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>
>[...]
>
>> > Once you have opted to send a reply, can you not delete those
>> > elements of the digest which you don't want to appear in your
>> > reply? I see you are using Messenger Pro and I can't believe
>> > that it's any less capable than Pluto (which I use) in this
>> > area.
>
>> This was the initial problem John because I could not see ALL
>> the messages when editing them, only the first two messages out
>> of the seven where actually shown.
>
>Not being a Messenger Pro user, I can only speculate - but when a
>mailing list is sent out as a digest, partial headers are
>included for each message *within* the digest. It might be that
>Messenger Pro was thrown by this, and became slightly confuzzled,
>thinking there was no more to the digest after a particular
>header subset.
>
>There may (or may not) be a difference between Pluto and
>Messenger Pro here
>- Jonathan built a facility into Pluto to split digests into
>  individual
>messages if that option was chosen for any given mailing list;
>it's possible that Messenger Pro doesn't have such an option (or
>that Stephen just isn't aware of it).
>
>However, while all of this is relevant to the running of the
>list, it has no relevance to the actual VirtualAcorn issue
>originally being discussed!
>

I have noticed that messages from this list come through as one
going back to November 2008, whereas on the Messenger, Risosweb
and StrongED mailing list all the messages have come through
individually as intended, this to me means that the other lists
have been set to Digest mode Off but the VA list I had unknowingly
set to digest on.

This has now been reset so the next batch of messages sent to me
from the VA list should not be in digest form.

Stephen.