Thank God this has never happened to my list!  I have over 3,000
subscribers and over 35,000 messages currently in the archive.

Why don't you send us your list headers so the knowledgeable among
us can examine them for anomalies.

Judith Hopkins, Listowner of Autocat
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On Fri, 28 Mar 1997, Kelley, Dave wrote:

> Hi all..
>
> I am using the unlimited version of Listserv and have since January.  I
> have a dozen lists running on it and I'm finding a very serious problem
> that is puzzling (at least to me).
>
> Here's the problem:
>
> About once a month every large list on the system gets every posting
> it's ever had sent out again.  For example, I have one list with 250
> subscribers and this afternoon each one got every message that's ever
> been posted to the list all in one big dump of messages.  This has
> happened to this list since January and each month since and of course
> the mail it dumps keeps getting bigger and bigger since it sends again
> from day one!!!
>
> These folks have started including dates and times in the body of their
> messages - how embarassing!!
>
> I also found that a few other lists I have done the same
> thing....however the small ones don't seem to do it.
>
> I'm wondering if it has anything to do with mail that bounces and it's
> trying to make sure everyone gets it all....strange, but that's all I
> can come up with.
>
> Please....if anyone has seen this problem or has a clue what to look for
> - I NEED HELP!!!
>
> Thanks for taking the time to read this.
>
> Dave Kelley
> City of Tempe
> Webmaster
>