An Intentional Double Posting

Farrell Till errancy@infidels.org
Fri, 09 Apr 1999 16:08:52 -0700 (00923717332, 2.2.32.19990409230852.008af13c@midwest.net) 

At 11:36 AM 4/9/99 -0400, you wrote:

>Farrell Till wrote:

>> 

>> At 08:27 PM 4/8/99 -0400, G. R. Gaudreau wrote:

>> >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.

>

>[grgaud]

>I received only two copies of this letter, which logically isn't

>right. I should have receieved four copies because you intentionally

>double-posted. I checked Joseph's headers (and a few others) and there

>was only one entry for Errancy but I got doubles. I still think it's

>my ISP. I've checked my config and it's OK. If the Infidels server was

>doing it, everyone would get doubles, ergo, it has to be Sprint. Just

>basic trouble shooting.

>


TILL
I can't understand what is going on with your e-mail server.  I thought that
the double posting would result in every member's getting two copies, but so
far you are the only one who has indicated that two copies were received.  I
received only one, and several others have said the same.

Farrell Till
Skepticism, Inc.
jftill@midwest.net