Stefan Salewski wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 12.11.2008, 13:51 -0500 schrieb Ethan Swint: >> In Thunderbird, you can opt to send a message as HTML only, plain text >> only, or both. It could be that the sender's mail program sends both a >> text and an HTML version, and the mailing list program automagically >> converts the HTML portion to plain text and sends both pieces. >> >> -Ethan >> > > Yes, this is an explanation. > I know that some strange people send their email as html, but I never > heard that they send same text twice. > > Joerg wrote: > >> I didn't get any twice in this group but I did in a German NG recently >> (up to four times). AFAIK there ain't much you can do other than >> install >> some parser that catches this and deletes all local duplicates. > > Please note: > I was not complaining about getting the same mail multiple times -- that > happen from time to time, and may be a problem of routing. > > What I see is the same text two times in one mail -- and that makes > reading a bit confusing (and is some waste of bandwidth too). >
Hmm, I never had that happen. That seems like a local problem on the PC. I was just going to say it could also be caused by Doppelbock Beer but I decided not to ... :-) Last time I had a major amount of young wine (Federweisse in Germany) as a student I noticed that text didn't only appear double but also slowly began to rotate. Shortly after I needed to see the restroom, and fast. -- SCNR, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ "gmail" domain blocked because of excessive spam. Use another domain or send PM. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
