Thank you.. I felt that the problem resided with Hotmail.. not us. The next person who reports this problem will hopefully cooperate with me in obtaining the information you reference. Frank Rowell - Mich. Dept. of Ed. Pete Weiss wrote: > At 08:34 03/19/2002 Tuesday, Rowell, Frank wrote: > >Once again, I am incurring the wrath of Hotmail account users because > >they receive 'hundreds' of postings of messages I send to one of our 17 > >Special Education Lists. This happened a couple of years ago, but I > >can't recall "the fix" if there is one on my end. Hence, if there is > >something I could or should be doing on our end, I would greatly > >appreciate any instruction to resolve this problem. Thanks. FR > > > >PS.. This seems to be affecting ONLY Hotmail users. > > There's your clue ... it is a HOTMAIL problem, or the mail server that it > trying to sent to hotmail users. It is NOT a LISTSERV problem. > > Set these folks to DIGEST. > > For a proper analysis, you would need a hotmailer to send you two > distributed with all RFC email headers namely the RECEIVED lines. Read > those headers from the bottom UP and look at the first place that they > differ. That will be where the transmission mechasism (MTA) is repeating > the sending. > > /Pete -- Frank E. Rowell Special Education Consultant/Webmaster Office of Sp. Ed. & Early Int. Services Michigan Dept. of Education 608 W. Allegan St. Lansing, MI 48933 517-335-0458 www.mde.state.mi.us/off/sped/