I manage two lists and automatically post an stock ADMIN message once a month (using cron jobs on a UNIX box) on my high traffic list and twice a month on the low traffic list. The once-monthly message on the high traffic list has gone through without incident but recently I've had the twice-monthly message rejected with the claim that it has already been posted recently. I thought that perhaps it was just marginally coming in under the timelimit but it has rejected both the Oct. 15th posting and the Nov. 1st posting with the same error. I also have a subscriber who posts a FAQ monthly on this low traffic list and she has gotten the rejection message when she posted it exactly one month since the October posting. Neither list is peered and none of the rejected posts have actually made it out to the membership of the low traffic list since the ones posted at the beginning of October. This has been working just fine for years. I just sent the release command to the server (results below) and found that some recent changes were made. Would any of these effect the the time period that produced the rejection message that says "returned to you unprocessed because it appears to have already been distributed to the XXXXXX list"? Though I find it very strange that I'm only seeing this on one list and not the other. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. I did a search on the lstown-l archives for the past two years and didn't find anything that seems to apply to this problem. Nothing has changed recently on my system (where the periodic ADMIN posts are generated). Master nodes file version: 2000-10-30 15:18:15 (VERS9921) NJE peers file version: 2000-08-16 12:27:16 Internet peers file version: 2000-10-31 04:46:15 Service file version: 2000-05-08 05:52:30 (VERS9912) Alias file version: 2000-11-01 20:11:13 Running under: AIX 4.2 I don't know if it has any bearing but I recently turned off Auto-deletion for a couple of days on the low traffic list to track down a bouncing forwarded address but once I took care of that, I restored the header to its original state. Thank you, -Debra Douglass -- .------------------------------------------------------------------. | No flames were thrown in the creation of this email message. | |------------------------------------------------------------------| |Debra Douglass [log in to unmask] http://www.catrio.org| `------------------------------------------------------------------'