I would like to have everyone who is still getting duplicate messages (let's say for the last month) from the emc-pstc listserver send me an e-mail telling me they are still getting duplicates. Please send it to me and not the list. I would like to know how often you get the duplicates and what e-mail software you use. The IEEE put a fix into place several months ago and since then I do not get any duplicate e-mails. I do know that several people still are getting duplicates, but there are also a lot of people who are not getting duplicates. We need to know how many list members still have a problem with duplicates.
Keep in mind that it is normal to get some duplicates. If you have posted a question / answer to the list and the person who responds, respond to "all" you will get a response directly from the person and one through the list server. Also several of the duplicates have been traced to errors on the part of the client software (such as Microsoft's Outlook) the user is using and has nothing to do with the IEEE servers. As a result there is nothing the IEEE can do about those cases. The IEEE sysadmin said so far all the dups he has gotten from the list have been the fault of his e-mail client software and not the IEEE servers. If you have gotten duplicates in the last week, please e-mail me (not the emc-pstc list) one of the messages (both copies) with the header. Please do not forward all of the recent duplicates, one will do. If you do not have the headers please do not forward them. Without headers the IEEE sysadmin can not chase down the problem. Some servers filter out the headers and some e-mail clients hide or filter them as well. The headers I am looking for look something like this: >Received: from ruebert.ieee.org ([199.172.136.3]) by mail.monarch.com with SMTP (IMA Internet Exchange 3.14) id 00006FC3; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 13:47:44 -0700 >Received: by ruebert.ieee.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA02719; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 11:26:11 -0400 (EDT) The headers tell the story as to where an e-mail has been and how long it stayed there. One of the keys is the message id numbers. As it moves between systems, the e-mail becomes a temporary file with the file name that matches the id number. From the id number and the time stamps you can tell where it's been. For those who care, sendmail is the main transport of e-mail on the Internet. You can checkout all the details at http://www.sendmail.org. Thanks, Jim Jim Bacher, Senior Engineer Paxar - Monarch e-mail:[email protected] voice:1-937-865-2020 fax:1-937-865-2048 ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail to: [email protected] with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Jim Bacher: [email protected] Michael Garretson: [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected]
