The faulty system can be the recipient MTA, i.e. it gags on a mail item
with a transient failure msg indicating a resend is required... of course
this can happen again and again and again.....

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On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, Adam Bailey wrote:

> On 10/2/97 2:12 PM CDT, Helen P. Nulty <[log in to unmask]> wrote...
>
> >I have had a report from a list owner that messages have been returned to
> >subscribers with the following explanation.  The subscriber did NOT post
> >the message twice.  What causes this to happen?  Thank you.
>
> It's usually a faulty mail system that sends two copies of their message
> to the list.
>
> This often happens if the first connection times out, but the actual
> message still made it through. The system doesn't know that, and tries
> again.
>
>
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