VANAGON archives -- September 2006, week 3 (#315)

Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 18:14:31 -0400 Reply-To: Joy Hecht <jhecht@ALUM.MIT.EDU> Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com> From: Joy Hecht <jhecht@ALUM.MIT.EDU> Subject: Re: duplicate messages (NVC - limited geek-speak :-) In-Reply-To: <20060918213903.74472.qmail@web50010.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

Hi Craig and others -

I replied to Tim off-line, in the interests of not cluttering the airwaves, but since Craig didn't, I'll send around the gist of my reply.

This is _not_ a problem of getting cut off in mid-download - in that case all emails would download again, not just Vanagon emails, and it would also not happen all the time, only when one gets cut off.

It is also _not_ a problem of people who reply to both the sender and the list - I'm getting the list emails twice. When folks reply to sender and list, I get them three times, once to me and twice to the list. It would be helpful, though, if people looked when they replied, and deleted the sender's name in the "To:" space if they are replying to the list.

When I download emails, the little message in the bottom right of Microsoft Outlook will say "6 emails" and then I'll get 12 messages (assuming they are all Vanagon emails, that is). So it is seeing 6 but then downloading them twice. Only with Vanagon mail, however.

I'm getting good at deleting! Next strategy might be to switch to digest and see if I get those twice. But I won't read any of it if I get it in digest mode, so that isn't a solution.

Sigh.

**************************************************************** Joy Hecht now living in a real house in northern Virginia and Matilda, 1989 Burgundy Vanagon now living in the driveway and resting after two and a half years lugging Joy and her stuff around... For musings about life and the vanadventures: http://www.joyhecht.net ****************************************************************

:::-----Original Message----- :::From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf :::Of Craig Morton :::Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 5:39 PM :::To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM :::Subject: Re: duplicate messages (NVC - limited geek-speak :-) ::: :::Ok, that sounds believable as my headers do have the same time on them. :::But how do we fix it? At least Joy and I would like to know. ::: ::: TIA ::: :::Craig ::: :::Tim Demarest <tim.demarest@POBOX.COM> wrote: ::: This is probably not a list issue, it's more likely to be a connection :::issue between your home machine and your mail server. This is a common :::side :::effect of losing connectivity while you are fetching your mail from your :::POP server. ::: :::The normal transaction is for the server to delete your mail after you've :::fetched it all, but if the connection drops, a well-written POP server :::will :::skip the delete step, in case some of your mail didn't reach you due to :::the :::interrupted transfer. ::: :::When your mail package checks again, you'll get some duplicate :::messages... :::this is annoying, but duplicate messages are better than lost mail. ::: :::Tim ::: ::: :::At 10:30 PM 9/17/2006 -0400, Joy Hecht wrote: :::>Interestingly, I am now also getting VWBusCamp emails in duplicate - but :::not :::>wetwesties emails or VWfulltimeres emails or any other emails, from :::lists or :::>otherwise. :::> :::>Do we have a list administrator out there who can look into this? :::> :::> :::> :::>Joy :::> :::> :::>**************************************************************** :::>Joy Hecht :::>now living in a real house in northern Virginia :::>and Matilda, 1989 Burgundy Vanagon :::>now living in the driveway and resting after two and a half years :::>lugging Joy and her stuff around... :::> :::>For musings about life and the vanadventures: :::>http://www.joyhecht.net :::> :::>**************************************************************** :::> :::> :::>:::-----Original Message----- :::>:::From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On :::Behalf :::>:::Of Craig Morton :::>:::Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2006 10:19 PM :::>:::To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM :::>:::Subject: Re: duplicate messages :::>::: :::>:::I am, too. If anyone knows how to eliminate the problem I would :::>:::appreciate knowing the secret. :::>::: :::>::: Craig :::>::: :::>:::Joy Hecht wrote: :::>::: Are other folks suddenly getting all their Vanagon emails in :::duplicate? :::>:::I'm not getting doubles of other email. Has something gone haywire on :::>:::the list? :::>::: :::>::: :::>:::Joy :::>::: :::>::: :::>:::**************************************************************** :::>:::Joy Hecht :::>:::now living in a real house in northern Virginia :::>:::and Matilda, 1989 Burgundy Vanagon :::>:::now living in the driveway and resting after two and a half years :::>:::lugging Joy and her stuff around... :::>::: :::>:::For musings about life and the vanadventures: :::>:::http://www.joyhecht.net :::>::: :::>:::**************************************************************** :::>::: :::>::: :::>::: :::>:::--------------------------------- :::>::: All-new Yahoo! Mail - Fire up a more powerful email and get things :::done :::>:::faster. ::: ::: ::: :::--------------------------------- :::Talk is cheap. Use Yahoo! Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls. Great :::rates starting at 1¢/min.

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