Duplicate messages (was: Somewhat OT)

[wiqd]

On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 09:07, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:

> [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html]
> 
> Sequence corrected.
> 
> On Wednesday, 17 November 2004 at  9:04:01 +0200, wiqd wrote:
> > 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
> >
> > You may find this strange, I actually got 4 copies of this message,
> > heh
> 
> It would be interesting to know why.
> 
> > No I have double checked, and I am only registered once.
> 
> You don't appear to have looked at the headers.
> 

I must apologise for not mentioning that I did look at the headers of
all the previous 4 messages, all of which returned no changes.

> > Perhaps I should give Digest mode a whirl ?
> 
> Perhaps you should look at the headers.
> 

I also used diff(1) on the headers of your last messages, of which again
I recieve 4 duplicates, and still no differences where found.

> Greg
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Thanks for you help.

Greg