On Thu, 23 May 2002, Julie Smoker wrote:

> We had an issue yesterday with an Out of the Office message that made it
> through the list quite a few times before I was notified and stopped it.  I
> thought duplicate checking and/or Out of Office checking should have caught
> this.  Does anyone have any thoughts as to why it wasn't caught?  Below is
> one of the last messages.

Without seeing at least two of the duplicate messages, I can only surmise
that the messages were not really duplicates in that they differed in some
slight way such as would happen if the date and time were embedded within
the notification message or subject.