On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 02:11:12PM -0600, Carl Lindgren wrote: (Notice the date stamp on your message. Rather funny considering the topic. Please fix your system time.) > Is it just me or are messages reposting? > > For the last several days now, I have noticed that several messages are > being posted several weeks or months after the time stamp on the original > message. I remember reading the message from Bret Baptist "RE: OT: Cisco 678 > availability" before back in September because I had a Client that was > struck from the same storm. My guess is that this is just another case of the TCLUG mail server being clogged up. Periodically, the mail server, due to high load, holds some messages and sends them out weeks or months after they were originally sent. In these cases, the impatient sender of the message, fearing that her message is lost, often resends the message (I've done this a couple of times myself). Then the second message will often get delivered immediately. Meanwhile the first message gets delivered later, and ends up being redundant. (If we ever write a FAQ list for TCLUG, this should be on it.) > ** If these are manual reposts, the messages should state that they are a > repost. In this case, I think that the second message received in the original. In fact, I bet if you searched for Bret's message from September that it would say that _it_ is a repost. -- Jim Crumley |Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List (TCLUG) crumley at fields.space.umn.edu |Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Ruthless Debian Zealot |http://www.mn-linux.org/ Never laugh at live dragons |Dmitry's free,Jon's next? http://faircopyright.org