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At 12:45 1999/10/19 -0400, jane and i wrote: >>the duplicate messages are likely caused by your isp >>thinking that a mail download to you had not been completed properly >>and so re-sent the mail on the next download to you >>i think 'hope' that the duplications are an isp issue >>and not a LISTSERV issue >>janette >>elffette >>nerdette >Actually, I got a whole pile of duplicates last night, also. I >figured it was my ISP until others on the list experienced the >same problem. So, just an FYI in case the nerdette wants to >render some elf magic on the server :-). Jane K. hi jane i'll re-phrase my above statement to: the duplicate messages are likely caused by a server somewhere en route from the listserv to your computer e-mail is handled in batches and the routing can be labyrinthine [?] and if one of the servers en route gets indigestion it might get the burps [sorta like me on sinemet cr] i don't intend to sound like i'm defending LISTSERV [i didn't invent it, i just try to understand it] but for some reason i have never received the duplicate messages that so many of you have thinking back to hurricane whatzizname, it seemed that a lot of internet e-mail routing was disrupted by the mess in north carolina, while nothing at all disrupted my own listserv mail which is bound [i hope] to be routed fairly simply from toronto ontario to almonte ontario jaNET of pieNET janet paterson 52 now / 41 dx / 37 onset 613 256 8340 po box 171 almonte ontario canada K0A 1A0 a new voice: <http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Village/6263/> <[log in to unmask]>