[ROVERNET - UK] messages in triplicate

Slatskars slatskars at comcast.net
Thu Feb 23 02:30:47 GMT 2006


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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