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Date:	Tue, 1 Jun 2004 11:34:34 PDT7
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: redundancy

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J. R. Fox wrote:
>
> Just to let you know (Peter ?) -- most of the messages from this list
> have been coming to me in duplicate for the last few days.

Okay, let's try to fix it. (I've only been getting one copy.)

-- 1. You said "most" of the messages. I have the following SCOUG-Help
messages over the previous three days:

7 Saturday
1 Sunday
18 Monday
(Lurkers: If you aren't in the -0700 time zone your counts may be
different.)

Is that what you have for different messages? And how many of them are
duplicates?

-- 2. If you will forward one set of duplicates to me I'll check the
headers. Occasionally duplicates are caused when the receiving server
doesn't tell the sending server that the message was fully received.
The sending server then tries to resend it. I want to see if the times
in your headers are different, which would mean that the message was
sent more than once.

-- 3. The duplicates can be caused by failures while you are downloading
your mail from your ISP's mail server. Have you had any recent
connection problems? What happens is similar to #2 above but it's a
POP3 connection; you ask your server for your mail, it sends a bunch of
messages, but when your email program sends an OK back to the ISP's
server it never gets there (or the connection is lost during the
download). The messages aren't deleted off the ISP's server since it
never got your OK, so the next time you ask for your messages they're
still there and you get them again. Hence, two copies.

-- 3. Just for background, once in a while someone signs up to receive
the list at multiple addresses and then later has one of the addresses
forwarded to the other. That results in multiple copies, although I
don't think that's what your problem is.

-- 4. I just looked at the subscription list and you're only in it once
(jr_fox *at* pacbell.net).

Holler back.

- Peter

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