On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 09:38:39AM +0200, Pierre Labastie wrote:
> On 24/05/2018 03:37, Christopher Gregory wrote:
>
> I thought I had answered that mail, but I clicked on "Reply" instead of "Reply
> list", and for some reason, my ISP did not want to deliver to your private
> address. Forgot to resend to the list. Sorry.
>
I haven't seen Christopher's mails on this, but ISTR he is in New
Zealand ? On a different list this month I suddenly started
receiving multiple copies (typically 12) of a post from someone in
New Zealand, and the same for a couple of the replies to him.
Apparently my ISP sends a response which is interpreted as failure,
and that list's hosting resends. The change was sudden - a few days
earlier his posts arrived as normal. The only obvious oddity (both
before and after) was that his mailserver is apparently in Germany,
because his ISP has outsourced that.
Overall, it turns out that different mail systems seem to have a lot
of scope for sending unusual responses. But for Pierre's issue, I
suspect it is some (proprietary) filtering at his ISP. Certainly,
my own ISP has poor filtering - only good mails seem to get flagged
as spam, or rejected - and even with that apparently turned off for
my account I still find that a small number of mails never arrive.
Overall, email turns out to be unreliable at times. :-(
ĸen
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