Duplicate Posts - Burst Posts...

From: Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk_at_yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Thu Jun 17 16:47:36 2004

On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 19:42, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:

> I believe David is getting multiple (i.e. greater than 2) bursts of the
> same messages. This is my case.

I don't pretend to understand these things, but it's not a timeout in
acknowedging emails sent to the list is it?

e.g. (simplistic view) list sends message to you, you get the message
but the turnaroud is so high that there's a timeout at the sending side
before any ack gets back to it. So it keeps resending until it thinks
the message has got through, and you keep getting multiple copies.

Presumably such a failure point would lay between the client and the
local mailserver though...

Most ISPs seem to be drowning in a sea of spam these days and completely
overloaded - at least they are over here. Unfortunately most of it comes
from the US and so national or Europe-wide legislation won't do any good
anyway :( Bring back the good old days of the 'net :-)

cheers

Jules
Received on Thu Jun 17 2004 - 16:47:36 BST