Re: duplicate messages?

Alvaro Herrera wrote:

>On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 11:46:05AM -0400, Robert Treat wrote:
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>>Seems unlikely unless folks like Tom Lane, Stephan Szabo, and Richard
>>Huxton have unsubscribed and resubscribed lately... Funny thing is it
>>isnt every messages, but maybe half of them. And its not to specific
>>users, sometimes one of Toms emails will duplicate but sometimes not.
>>Further more it only seems to be happening on pgsql-general emails and
>>not on any of the other lists... I also notice this is only happening on
>>one of my subscribed emails, not the other, which is a little weird...
>>according to the headers though, this problem is happening further
>>upstream.
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>I'd think it would be a problem with your "last mile", because it seems
>to be a localized problem. Maybe an SMTP server dropping connections at
>the last moment, or a deliver program crashing after delivering (leading
>to re-delivery), or something like that.
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>You'd have to show us the headers though.
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For the last few days, I am getting about half of the messages on
-general in duplicate also. I've attached two messages that I got in
duplicate for header perusal.

It seems kind of unlikely that this should start happening to all of us
at once.

Paul