[ROVERNET - UK] messages in triplicate

[Eric Russell]

Thanks for the confirmation, Slats.

Eric


--- Slatskars <slatskars at comcast.net> wrote:

> No duplicates here Eric.
> 
> Slats
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Eric Russell" <p6rovers at yahoo.com>
> To: <rovernet at lyris.ccdata.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 5:16 PM
> Subject: RE: [ROVERNET - UK] messages in triplicate
> 
> 
> > Ken,
> > I have been approached before with a similar
> > abnormality but as Paul pointed out, it was
> developed
> > through the user's actions or email operations.
> > I reviewed my inbox in the time frame you
> provided.
> > I didn't receive duplicate messages.  I was
> wondering
> > if any other member received triplicate messages
> > during that period but no one has responded on
> that
> > question except for Paul.
> >
> > Unless someone/some people report(s) the same
> > experience as yourself, I have nothing to go to
> the
> > host system administrator with.
> >
> > Sorry that you had trouble, but I am confident
> that it
> > was not a host server glitch.  That is, unless
> others
> > have the same experience.
> >
> > (I can just hear the sys admin voice now :-(
> >
> > Eric
> >
> >
> >
> > --- "Gundry, Kenneth" <KG at dolby.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Eric,
> >>
> >> Although you didn't explicitly say so, I take it
> >> therefore that in that
> >> period (16-19 February) you did not receive
> messages
> >> in triplicate.
> >> However, your last sentence implies that the
> problem
> >> has been observed
> >> before.
> >>
> >> I think you are suggesting that one possibility
> is
> >> that anyone with more
> >> than one email address, intending only one to be
> >> active for this forum,
> >> may inadvertently have got two or more on the
> list,
> >> and therefore
> >> received two or more copies of each message. 
> That
> >> makes sense, but
> >> doesn't apply to me since I only have one
> address,
> >> and the problem
> >> corrected itself around noon (Pacific Time) on
> >> Sunday, after which
> >> messages arrived singly (and nobody would have
> been
> >> around at that time
> >> this end to be making changes).  Besides, if that
> >> had been the case the
> >> replicated messages would not have been
> identical;
> >> they would have had
> >> different addressees and perhaps different times.
> >> Ah, the addressees
> >> point is irrelevant since incoming messages from
> the
> >> forum don't show
> >> the individual recipient's address.
> >>
> >> The fact that the problem corrected itself
> without
> >> intervention at this
> >> end points to a mailing list server problem ...
> >> doesn't it?
> >>
> >> Ken G, 1925 Rover 16/50 (San Francisco)
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: rovernet-bounces at lyris.ccdata.com
> >> [mailto:rovernet-bounces at lyris.ccdata.com] On
> Behalf
> >> Of Eric Russell
> >> Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 1:56 PM
> >> To: rovernet at lyris.ccdata.com
> >> Subject: Re: [ROVERNET - UK] messages in
> triplicate
> >>
> >> Two questions:
> >> 1.  Hands up all those receiving triplicate
> >> messages.
> >> (I could then offer overwhelming advice to the
> hosts
> >> - who aren't good
> >> at answering emails.) 2.  Ken:  unsubscribe, wait
> an
> >> hour and subscribe
> >> again.
> >>
> >> Request:
> >> Anybody who has had this experience and found a
> >> solution, please offer
> >> some ideas.
> >>
> >> Note: the logical operation, for me, is that a
> >> message is sent to the
> >> mailing list server in the UK.  The server
> examines
> >> it to be sure it
> >> fits the criteria.
> >> Then the server sends the message out to each
> >> subscriber email address
> >> on the list. Some people have been known to have
> 2
> >> subscribed addresses.
> >>  If there is a server malfunction and messages
> are
> >> sent out from the
> >> server in duplicate, then everyone would
> experience
> >> the problem.
> >> (I had this discussion, once, with one of the
> host
> >> system administrators
> >> in the UK.)
> >>
> >> Eric
> >>
> >>
> >> --- "Gundry, Kenneth" <KG at dolby.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > This is to the webmaster.
> >> >
> >> > Over the period 16 to 19 February, I received
> 46
> >> messages, each in
> >> > triplicate (and identical).  Our local computer
> >> gurus think the
> >> > problem is your end, not ours, but are you
> aware
> >> of a mechanism for
> >> > this?  A similar problem has occurred once or
> >> twice before (weeks or
> >> > months ago) but only for isolated messages, and
> I
> >> assumed then that
> >> > the sender had accidentally sent more than once
> >> (all too easy with the
> >>
> >> > silly alternative keystrokes of Microsoft
> >> Outlook).
> >> >
> >> > Ken G, 1925 Rover 16/50 running again (San
> >> > Francisco)
> >> >
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