Thank you..  I felt that the problem resided with Hotmail.. not us.  The next
person who reports this problem will hopefully cooperate with me in obtaining
the information you reference.  Frank Rowell - Mich. Dept. of Ed.

Pete Weiss wrote:

> At 08:34 03/19/2002 Tuesday, Rowell, Frank wrote:
>  >Once again, I am incurring the wrath of Hotmail account users because
>  >they receive 'hundreds' of postings of messages I send to one of our 17
>  >Special Education Lists.  This happened a couple of years ago, but I
>  >can't recall "the fix" if there is one on my end.  Hence, if there is
>  >something I could or should be doing on our end, I would greatly
>  >appreciate any instruction to resolve this problem.  Thanks. FR
>  >
>  >PS.. This seems to be affecting ONLY Hotmail users.
>
> There's your clue ... it is a HOTMAIL problem, or the mail server that it
> trying to sent to hotmail users.  It is NOT a LISTSERV problem.
>
> Set these folks to DIGEST.
>
> For a proper analysis, you would need a hotmailer to send you two
> distributed with all RFC email headers namely the RECEIVED lines.  Read
> those headers from the bottom UP and look at the first place that they
> differ.  That will be where the transmission mechasism (MTA) is repeating
> the sending.
>
> /Pete

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Frank E. Rowell
Special Education Consultant/Webmaster
Office of Sp. Ed. & Early Int. Services
Michigan Dept. of Education
608 W. Allegan St.
Lansing, MI  48933
517-335-0458
www.mde.state.mi.us/off/sped/