At 11:06 PM 2002-06-16 -0400, Vivek Khera wrote:
> >>>>> "BL" == Byron Lunz <bklunz@databack.com> writes:
>
>BL> Is anyone else seeing the re-appearance of old messages on
>BL> discussion lists (or just old messages re-appearing in their
>BL> inbox)?
>
>The usual cause I've experienced is some broken mail system that uses
>the "To:" header (not the SMTP envelope recipient) to deliver the
>mail. When it sees the list address it just re-sends the message to
>the list. Usually these types of systems hide behind a single ISP
>email account and then "burst" the messages to their local users based
>on the "To" header. Obviously, it is very easy to write broken
>software, and the rest of the world gets to suffer.
Unless this is a policy suddenly taken up by a large number of people at
rr.com, I doubt it is the case this time. Do these systems also
reconstitute the "Mail From:<>" addresses as well?
>The quick fix is to track down the offending address and remove it
>from your list.
Well, I can understand that if that was what was happening. I might even
be tempted to do that in this case.
--
War is an ugly thing, but it is not the ugliest of things. The decayed and
degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is
worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to
fight, nothing he cares about more than his own personal safety, is a
miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made so by the
exertions of better men than himself. -- John Stuart Mill
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