Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/16
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At 6:05 PM -0700 8/16/01, Brian Reid wrote:
>Through the years there have been various grumblings from LUG
>subscribers about duplicated email. I usually check these complaints
>carefully and I never found anything.
>
>A few weeks ago many of you will remember an onslaught of duplicate
>messages which I ultimately tracked down to Ngoi Sing Teck in
>Myanmar who was (probably without knowing it) looping hundreds of
>messages from his inbox back to the list. I added a mechanism to the
>LUG software that blocked such messages, and I haven't had any
>complaints about duplicated email since.
>
>I installed this loopback-preventer on July 23. Since then there
>have been dozens of people looping back a message or two. The guilty
>software has always been Microsoft Outlook (never Outlook Express).
>I never would have discovered the problem had it not been for the
>avalanche of looped-back messages from Myanmar, but there wasn't
>another avalanche.
>
>Today michaela@kirk.ca looped back 190 messages to the LUG, which
>would have been delivered to all of you had it not been for the
>prevention software.
>
>Now I find myself wondering two things:
>
>1) What madness in Microsoft Outlook causes it to do this, and
>2) How long has this been going on?
>
>You probably find yourself wondering one thing:
>
>1) Brian, why don't you shut up and go take some pictures.
It's very reassuring to know there's someone knowledgeable at the helm.
As a list member, I'm very glad that you sometimes take time out from
picture taking to deal with the idiocies of Microsoft and other
computer saboteurs.
Thanks.
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