Duplicate messages (was: Somewhat OT)

[wiqd]

You may find this strange, I actually got 4 copies of this message, heh

No I have double checked, and I am only registered once.

Perhaps I should give Digest mode a whirl ?

Thx for the response :)

Greg

On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 08:46, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:

> On Wednesday, 17 November 2004 at  8:26:22 +0200, wiqd wrote:
> > I know this has absolutely nothing to do with the topic of this list,
> > but could someone please explain to me why I get 2 copies of every
> > single message sent to the list ?
> >
> > I have tried everything I can think of, however I still get duplicate
> > messages.
> >
> > Is there something I have missed ?
> 
> Examples, maybe?
> 
> It's a convention in most FreeBSD lists to reply to both the list and
> the sender, so you should get two copies of this list, one directly
> from me and the other from the list.  That should be evident from the
> headers.  If you get three, then there's a chance that you're
> subscribed under two different names.  Again, the headers will tell
> you more about what's going on.
> 
> To get rid of the duplicates, put this in your .procmailrc:
> 
> # Avoid messages with duplicate Message-ID
> :0 W: msgid.lock
> | formail -D 65536 msgid.cache
> 
> Greg
> --
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