Re: repeat messages

["Barton P. Chambers" <bchambers@atlantic.nos.noaa.gov>]

In message <013.02301266.TACE96A@prodigy.com>  writes:
> Is anybody else getting repeat messages, repeat messages,repeat messages???
> 
> Thanks..Thanks..Thanks....
> 
> ned  ned  ned

Ned (and others to whom this has happened),

The same thing happens, sporadically, to me.  I am (more or less) active on 
both this list and Porschephiles, and I thought, at first, that the problem
might be at one of the the reflector's.  But when the problem hits, it happens
to messages from both lists equally.

Disclaimer:  I'm passing on what I've been told.  It may be wrong, and I sure 
don't understand everything I know about this, but here goes anyway:  My mail 
sysadmin guy recently told me that the problem happens when I send a message to 
an address that has gone off the net (temporarily or not).  This, he explained, 
causes stuff to back-up and be re-sent.  

Does this make sense to anyone?  It sure as hell doesn't to me...sounds like 
these backed-up messages, having time on their (figurative) hands, start
messin' around and breedin' like little etheric rabbits...

Okay, now some of you sysadmin guys that know what the hell *is* going on feel
free to jump in anytime and clear the air (or add to the confusion, as the 
spirit moves you...).

Cheers,

Bart Chambers

'77 Feline Varmint Felix, Gray Tabby
'86 Carrera Cabriolet, Indischrot
'87 Syncro (Stealth Quattro)