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..... -- Alan Thew [log in to unmask] Computing Services,University of Liverpool Fax: +44 151 794-4442 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. > > > -- > Adam Bailey | Chicago, Illinois > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-| "Do not take life too seriously; > [log in to unmask] | you will never get out of it alive." > [log in to unmask] | - Elbert Hubbard > Finger for PGP | http://www.tezcat.com/~adamb >