Dragaera

Meta: Mailing list delivery problems?

David Dyer-Bennet dd-b at dd-b.net
Fri Sep 27 14:36:51 PDT 2002

David Silberstein <davids at kithrup.com> writes:

> On 27 Sep 2002, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
> 
> >Nytemuse <nytemuse at auros.org> writes:
> >
> >> I've been having problems for at least a month now with delays, posts
> >> coming WAY out of order, and even getting multiple posts when I can't see
> >> multiple addresses in the header.  It's possible they got BCC'd somehow,
> >> but I got 4 copies of 1 message yesterday/today, which seems excessive.
> >
> >I did too, and they're in the archive; I think that was a sender
> >glitch rather than a mailing list glitch.
> 
> If it was a sender glitch, wouldn't the messages have different
> archive numbers?
> 
> But they are all [X-Archive-Number: 2649]

There's a case where the connection fails between the far end
committing and getting the acknowledgement back to the sending end
that can duplicate a message, but it's pretty weird for that to happen
on multiple connections on the same message.
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