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Rich Greenberg <[log in to unmask]>
Mon, 11 Oct 1999 20:06:31 PDT
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On Oct 11,  6:52pm, George Buckner wrote:
} Subject: unexplained duplicate messages
} One of our subscribers just got the following message from our listserv.
}
} >Your message  is being returned to  you unprocessed because it  appears to have
} >already  been  distributed to  the  PSYCHE-B  list.  That  is, a  message  with
} >identical text  (but possibly with different  mail headers) has been  posted to
} >the list recently, either by you or by  someone else...
}
} The subscriber doesn't understand why he got this message, since he only
} submitted it once, and it was approved and distributed.
}
} So, assuming the subscriber didn't actually send a duplicate, what kinds
} of things can cause this condition?

A mailer somewhere hiccuped and sent it again.  Or a malfunctioning
mailer send it back to the list.  Only the complete headers can show what
happened.

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