SCO-LIST Mailing List and Duplicate Messages

[Ben Taylor]

mtv at milton.u.washington.edu (David Schanen) writes:

>In article <1991Mar25.220919.9235 at mrspoc.Transact.COM> steven at Transact.COM writes:
>     ...stuff deleted...
>>every member of the list has been receiving DOZENS of copies of each message
>>during the past week.  One or two duplicates now and then is acceptable,

The list is pretty useful.  The duplicates are generally not too big a deal
but this week was pretty bad.

>     ...more stuff deleted...
>Well not every member, in fact I haven't seen any mail at all from the list
>for some time, I wonder why?  It seems the mail problems run even deeper than
>a bad address somewhere. 

Funny.  I realized when I wasn't getting any more mail from the list.   I
added myself again and was back on the list.  The reason I wasn't getting
any mail from the list was that my mailer died and sent a rejected message
back to the list.  When this happens, you get unsubscribed from the list.
Must have been an avid reader of the list to make sure you got back on the
list when you realized this....

>>Either UUNET or the list administrator MUST take some responsibility for this.

UUNET runs sendmail.  It's not likely to change anytime soon considering the
amount of traffic they support.  Part of the dups problem is that sendmail
hoses up and dies, and then restarts at the beginning of the address list.
Dave has been trying to get the list moved someplace else, but the large
number of non-volunteers makes this difficult.  What are you doing to help
the problem?  I spent time on the phone with UUNET and Dave Ambrust, rather
than suggest we flame the moderator.

>Agreed! Send flames to 'owner-sco-list at uunet.uu.net'!

Ah, folks of little action, frantic fingers and clueless days.

>	-Dave
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Ben Taylor
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