[Macpartners] Re: multiple copies received of some e-mails from single list?

[Stephen Dowdy]

So the $10,000 question might be:   Why is duplicate suppression turned off 
on the PO servers?    Can it be turned on?


At 04:02 PM 4/28/2004 -0400, Laura Baldwin wrote:

>If you're on a mailman list twice (for example, because you're on the
>list with your own address, and then another list you're on is on the
>list), then you'll get two copies.
>
>This is because duplicate suppression is currently off on the PO
>servers, so the duplicates aren't being pruned out the way we're used
>to.
>
>Additionally, moira lists prune duplicates before sending messages,
>while mailman can't, so when a moira list gets converted to mailman,
>you see duplicates that you didn't before.
>
>If there's a particular list that a particular person is getting a
>duplicate message from, accounts at mit.edu can generally track down why
>(that is, what the duplicate entries are).
>
>-Laura Baldwin