Starshadw at aol.com writes: > In a message dated Thu, 13 Jun 2002 12:34:15 PM Eastern Daylight Time, dd-b at dd-b.net writes: > > > I hit "Followup" and then edit out the individual > > addresses, myself. > > That's what I've been doing, but quite a few people forget to do this, and so I'm getting at least 60-75% of the messages twice. :) I love lots of messages, but I don't like duplicated messages - and I don't like to just assume it's a duplcation and delete it without opening because sometimes you reply to the same subject more than once, so I always have to open every message. > > Another thing that's interesting is I find I'm often getting replies before I get the original message. :) Since the direct reply will go from the sender's mail server to your mail server, whereas a message in the list has to go through my mail server and my *list* mail server before it reaches your mail server, and since my list mail server is almost by definition somewhat busy when a message in one of the lists has just come through, I'm not *that* surprised. Plus it can happen just at random -- if one server fails to connect to another server for whatever reason, it sets a retry time and forgets about it for a while, so two messages taking different paths can very easily come out in either order. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net / New TMDA anti-spam in test John Dyer-Bennet 1915-2002 Memorial Site http://john.dyer-bennet.net Book log: http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/Ouroboros/booknotes/ New Dragaera mailing lists, see http://dragaera.info