On Thu, 4 Nov 1993 08:13:09 CST Marty Hoag said:
>On Wed, 3 Nov 1993 17:55:25 EST Gary Sponseller said:
>>We run nearly all lists here with X-Tags= Yes.
>>
>>One subscriber (out of 400+) from one of these lists is occasionally
>>getting duplicate postings.  The claim is that X-Tags= Yes is possibly
>>the problem.  I have no idea if this is true or not, but I am doubtful.
>>My questions are:
>>
>>Has anyone else seen a duplicate posting problem that was solved solely
>>by changing X-Tags?  If not, how would you trace this problem from this
 
>   Yes.  As I recall UCLA mail uses the X-tags that LISTSERV uses for internal
>use.  The duplication happens, as I recall, when there are other recipients
>besides the list in the original mail.  Listserv changes these to X-To: and
>then when UCLA mail gets them bad things happen.  I don't know if there is
>a fix for this or not.  This was a year or so ago.  But to avoid problems
>I've standardized on X-Tags= Comment .  I don't know of any systems using
>comments for routing.  ;-)
>
>     Marty
 
Thanks to all responders (Eric, Kent and Marty) for the quick answers!  :-)
However, UCLA/Mail is not involved.  I have changed to X-Tags= Comment on
this list -- hoping this will solve the problem.  The likely offender in
this case is the very non-RFC822 Banyan/VINES mailer... >8-(
Gary