Mail Archives: opendos/2000/11/11/09:39:42
> I have no idea what you are talking about. I sent one and only one message
> containing the obiyuary text and it was only to the opendos AT delorie DOT com.
Yes, and I received one and only one message. It just contained four copies
of the obituary.
> There must be something wrong with your server..
Uh-huh. Sure. Somewhere between your server, the listserv and my box
upstairs something decided to take a nice neatly delimited section of text
in your mail, copy it four times and then send it on? Get real.
> I sometimes get duplicates of messages from a mail; server. All I do is
look
> at the timestamp and if they are the same, I just delete the dups. I don't
> even bother to open them.
So do I - my machine upstairs filters them for me. I got one message
though. Read the message you are replying to:
: The copy of the message I received contained the same text, four times
> I can't believe how upset peole get because of some screwup and are always
> wuick to point their finger in the wrong direction. Look at the timestamps
> on the mail!
I'm pointing my finger in the right direction, thanks. Servers don't go
around copying a section of text for laughs. It's considerably more likely
that you hit Paste too many times though.
Regards,
Ben A L Jemmett.
(http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ben.jemmett/, http://www.deltasoft.com/)
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