RE: [Leica] Double early morning digests

["Phong" <phong@doan-ltd.com>]

Thanks John.  
I checked and the dates and message id's
are identical in the duplicated copies.
Is anybody using Earthlink/Mindspring as ISP having
this message duplication problem ?

- - Phong


> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Collier [mailto:jbcollier@powersurfr.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 9:10 AM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us; Phong
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Double early morning digests
> 
> 
> Here is a message from the archives on the subject of double messages:
> 
> ---------------------------
> 
> If you get more than one copy of a message, check the time stamp (in
> the "Date:" field) and check the message ID (in the "Message-ID:"
> field). If they are both duplicated, then the message duplication is in
> the transport path somewhere, often in the path between your mail
> server and your computer, or even inside your computer. If the Date is
> the same but the Message-ID is hideously different (they look
> unrelated), the duplication is probably inside your ISP. If the Date
> fields differ and the Message-ID field is the same, the problem is in
> the software in the sender's computer. If the Date and Message-ID
> fields both differ between duplicated copies of the message, then they
> are in all probability being sent more than once by the sender.
> 
> The most common cause of message duplication is an ISP running out of
> disk space on their mail computer. The mail is delivered to your ISP but
> its disk fills up, and the sending ISP has no way of knowing whether the
> message got through before the disk filled up, so the sending ISP's
> computer does not mark the message as "delivered", and tries again to
> deliver it half an hour later.
> 
> -------------------------------------
> 
> > From: "Phong" <phong@doan-ltd.com>
> > 
> > Does anybody else get duplicates of the 3:00am daily
> > digests ?  There seem to be a duplication problem from
> > digest V20 #345, 9/25/2001, and only to the 3:00am digests.
> > 
> 
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