Robert Hayden then said:
> This appears to have been mistakenly sent to just me.
Of the lists I still subscribe-to, this and one other seem to me to
behave rudely--a reply goes to the author, instead of back to the list. And
when I am tired I forget to go to the un-necessaary effort (which is not
even possible for some of our customers) of examining the headers to see
where the replay is going to go.
Why is this?
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Sat, 16 Jul 94 21:19:35 CDT
> From: Larry Sheldon <lsheldon@bluejay.creighton.edu>
> To: "Robert A. Hayden" <hayden@vorlon.mankato.msus.edu>
> Subject: Re: Duplication problem
>
> Robert Hayden, continuing the discussion, said:
>
> > On Sat, 16 Jul 1994, John P. Rouillard wrote:
> >
> > > Are you the only person getting a second copy of the message? Or is
> > > the entire list getting multiple copies?
> >
> > The entire list is getting them.
> >
> > > Were these letters being sent to multiple addresses?
> >
> > I thought of that, but no. I've had my own mailings to the list
> > duplicated.
> >
> > > Does a particular originator (site, person or mailer) show up more
> > > often than any other?
> >
> > No, it appears completely random.
> >
> > > Are all of the received headers on the messages identical as well?
> >
> > They appear to be identical, at least what I can see here.
> >
> > > Well it looked ok to me.
> >
> > Hmm. If it's not majordomo, then it must be sendmail. Time to go find a
> > Bat Book.
>
> We have a situation here where things at times look a little like what RH
> describes--only not every body gets the dupes--and the ones that do, may
> get many.
>
> Problem seems to be the sendmail that HP packs in H-PUX does not handle
> (all?) I/O errors--given a mail piece with local addresses A, B, C, D, E,
> F, . . . X, Y, and Z--if "X" is over-quota, A-W will get a new copy of the
> piece every fifteen minutes. (Position in the address string is not
> relevant, "sendmail" croaks on the over-quota, after delivering all before
> the problem, and none after it. And in croaking, leaves the whole shebang
> in the queue.
>
> This analysis be somebody who has had trouble getting past the Preface
> in the Bat Book.
>
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