[sdiy] OT: Duplicate messages

[Scott Gravenhorst]

No, these are list server regurgitations.  When someone does a
"Reply all" in response to your question, you and you alone will
get two identical responses, everyone else will get only one.
You get two because the message is sent directly to your account
and another because the list receives and sends one.  
Theoretically, the list server should send each message to each 
list member only once.  The reply-all functionality comes from 
the ISP of the user doing a Reply-All where it (that ISP) sends 
the message to the named recipient and to the list.  I've seen 
this before, then Rick fixes it or it fixes itself and 
eventually stops.  I've sent a message to Rick, hopefully he'll 
see it soon.  Some of the repeats I'm seeing are days later.  
I've seen Jim Patchell's latest sequencer progress report twice, 
also several other random posts have come twice.


"Julian" <julian at 22host24.com> wrote:
>i think its something to do with if someone clicks 'reply all' to 
>a thread that youve posted on, your address is still in the 
>headders of the later emails of the thread, so you get a mail 
>from the person direct, and then one form the list. probably 
>different with differrent mail software too, i suppose 
>
>can get confusing when lots of people are posing to a thread.
>
>i think its somthing like this anyway.
>
>julian
>
>----- Original Message -----
>> > Anyone else receiving duplicate messages? This is the only list on which
>> > it happens for me.
>
>

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