An Intentional Double Posting
Derek Pomery errancy@infidels.org
Fri, 9 Apr 1999 02:56:57 -0400 (EDT) (00923659017, Pine.LNX.3.95.990409025536.8083F-100000@helix.cs.cuc.edu)
> >G. R. Gaudreau
> >>>Farrell,
> >>>I just noticed in my reply to Jacob, concerning his indignation over
> >>>the flippency on the list, that I got two letters from the server at
> >>>Infidels. I didn't hit the "reply to" button, only the "Reply"
> >>>button, I'm positive about that, so I should have received only one
> >>>letter but I receivd two of them. Something is wrong at the server
> >>>end. Perhaps you should let them know this.
>
> >>TILL
> >>I am intentionally double posting my reply to this so that everyone will see
> >>what happens when "reply to all" is chosen. If you will look at the address
> >>line above, you will see that selection of the "reply to all" option
> >>resulted in errancy@infidels.org being inserted twice on the "To" line.
> >>Some are saying that they are receiving double postings that I am receiving
> >>only one copy of. If you receive a double posting, check the "To" line to
> >>see if errancy@infidels.org appears twice. If it doesn't, then the reason
> >>why you are receiving two copies must be a fault of your e-mail service and
> >>not the errancy list. I can see no reason why everyone on the list would
> >>not receive two copies if the posting was really double addressed.
>
> >CREA
> >Strange, so far I've only received one copy of this.
>
> |aaron|
> It may be "anti-mailbomb" features of our mail servers. The messages
> are identified as identical in every way. This would keep a mailbomber
> from sending the same message, to one person, 1000 times.
>
> Just a guess, which doesn't work exactly, since Rick made sure he had
> the errancy list addressed only once in one of his emails, and it still got
> to him twice. <shrug>
DEREK
Makes sense. I don't have permission to view /var/log on this machine,
but I presume an event like that would be recorded. Aaron, feel like
tailing the recent error entries?