Tue, 17 Dec 2002 15:02:34 -0500
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On Tue, 17 Dec 2002 08:24:58 EST, Pete Weiss <[log in to unmask]> said:
> Are you aware of any false positives of LISTSERV standard duplicate checking?
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> From: "L-Soft list server at LISTS.PSU.EDU (1.8d)"
> <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Rejected posting to [log in to unmask]
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>
> Your message is being returned to you unprocessed because it appears
> to have already been distributed to the psulist 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
I've never seen a false positive. I've seen lots of confusing correct positives
caused by loops in netnews->list gateways, and broken forwarding (every once
in a while, some bozo will accidentally forward their mail to the list).
If connectivity is good and system load light, the duplicate can show up
within a few seconds, making it *look* like your original got bounced in error.
Careful inspection of the MTA logs will probably show what happened. You want
to look for incoming mail with a 'from [log in to unmask] that has an unlikely
SMTP relay address (i.e. not the normal PSU mail hub).
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Valdis Kletnieks
Computer Systems Senior Engineer
Virginia Tech
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