Re: Usenet-to-Email error

Chris Lewis (clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca)
Mon, 6 Jul 1998 19:52:38 -0400

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On Jul 6, 13:35, Larry W. Virden, x2487 wrote:
} Subject: Re: Usenet-to-Email error
} About once every 6 months or so I get an email msg telling me that my
} 'message' to a mailing list is a duplicate. The thing is, I never
} send it to any mailing list - I only post it to usenet. So perhaps it's
} something like that - somewhere someone has a gateway that just occasionally
} 'burps' .

Somebody is gatewaying a newsgroup your FAQ is in into a LISTSERV-managed
mailing list. [Omit long diatribe about my previous run-in on this
issue with the author of LISTSERV.] I think that they finally managed
to swat _most_ of these problems, but some probably still remain.
Or, it's an old LISTSERV.

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