Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!decwrl!ucbvax!NIHCU.BITNET!JDA From: JDA@NIHCU.BITNET (Doug Ashbrook) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Why do I get duplicate postings? Message-ID: <8808311518.aa17678@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> Date: 31 Aug 88 18:41:25 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 24 > I don't know how common this is, but I'm sending to the list in the hopes > that someone else has seen this phenomenon: > > approximately 20% of everything i receive from this list is an exact duplicate > of something else i've received. I'm subscribed through listserv@ndsuvm1, > and everything says it came from there. Sometimes I get the things > on the same day but more often a half day apart or more. It's really odd... > does everyone get two of somethings, do certain people always post twice, > or what?? could it be from people posting to comp.sys.apple as well as > sending to info-apple@brl.mil?? I experience the same problem. In fact, I received two copies of your message about 1 minute apart (usually it is more like your half day apart). Except for the timestamps from the LISTSERVs, the only difference between the two copies of your message was that the "From:" lines differed as follows: From: Andy Tefft From: Andy Tefft ------------------------------------------------------------------- J. Douglas Ashbrook (301) 496-5181 BITNET: JDA@NIHCU ARPA: jda%nihcu.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu National Institutes of Health, Computer Center, Bethesda, MD 20892