Guest guest Posted October 24, 2000 Report Share Posted October 24, 2000 You can always tell if a message is a repeat or a server problem. Just look at the message header Message-Id: <20001022144113.IYGR4426.mta10.onebox.com Message-Id: <20001022144113.IYGR4426.mta10.onebox.com Message-Id: <20001022144113.IYGR4426.mta10.onebox.com Message-Id: <20001022144113.IYGR4426.mta10.onebox.com These lines from the different messages shows that it was received by Ashley's mail server ONCE. As we all got four of them them with EXACTLY the same message ID in each message the problem was outside of Ashley's control. Now it may have been sent by onebox.com four times or four times, or possibly there was a hiccup in the transfer which caused an error, that resulted in a retry four times. X-eGroups-Return: sentto-123679-9951-972225675-xxx=xxx.net (AT) returns (DOT) X-eGroups-Return: sentto-123679-9952-972229131-xxx=xxx.net (AT) returns (DOT) X-eGroups-Return: sentto-123679-9953-972229994-xxx=xxx.net (AT) returns (DOT) X-eGroups-Return: sentto-123679-9955-972236140-xxx=xxx.net (AT) returns (DOT) Now if you look further into the message header you will see that the message was received by four times. 123679-9951 <<< The message ID's 123679-9952 123679-9953 123679-9955 Which means that got four messages, but onebox.com only got one. So, for some reason onebox decided to send the message four times. Of course, all this is unavailable to you if you receive your messages in digest form where you don't have the headers. I don't think it would be too unreasonable to ask to set their system up so that any message with EXACTLY the same message ID not be sent again - at least within a reasonable time, say one day? - " Karen C. Greenlee " <greenlee " cyber-ann " <annette_sweerts Cc: <Veg-Recipes > Tuesday, 24 October 2000 8:29 AM Server Burps > As Christine explained, it was probably a " server burp " . She probably only > sent it one time, but the server " burped " and sent it out four times. > Don't feel bad, once on the mc-recipe list, one poor lady had a major > " server burp " and her post was sent over *150* times (yeah, 150!) in one day -- > they just kept coming, one after the other. Then, of course, there were about > 100 posts about receiving the 150 posts. Actually, she's on Veg-Recipes too but > is on " no mail " right now cause she's on vacation or something. > > Karen > List Owner > > cyber-ann wrote: > > > What is the meaning of sending me four times the same stupid question about > > fatfree frying from alexis baby? > > > > Greetings from Amsterdam (Holland), > > > > Annette Sweerts > > > > annette_sweerts > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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