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From: "Ben A L Jemmett" <ben DOT jemmett AT ukonline DOT co DOT uk>
To: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Trivia
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 13:51:53 -0000
Organization: Jemmett Glover Software Development
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Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com

> 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/)