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"LISTSERV site administrators' forum" <[log in to unmask]>
wrote on 01/20/2005 09:09:20 AM:
> Good morning, all. I have an owner who received this message
> many times and claims to have only sent the message once. Any
> ideas why? Thanks.
>
>
> Your message is being returned to you unprocessed because it
> appears to have
> already been distributed to the ANTHROPOLOGY-MAJORS-L 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. If
> you have a good
> reason to resend this message to the list (for instance
> because you have been
> notified of a hardware failure with loss of data), please
> alter the text of the
> message in some way and resend it to the list. Note
> that altering the
> "Subject:" line or adding blank lines at the top or bottom
> of the message is
> not sufficient; you should instead add a sentence or two at
> the top explaining
> why you are resending the message, so that the other
> subscribers understand why
> they are getting two copies of the same message.
Is it possible that some server in the chain from him to the listserv host
is sending duplicates? The most common cause of that is a system that
times out after sending the data, but before it sends a 250 Message
Accepted. The sending system isn't *sure* that the receiver got the
message, so it tries again.
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