John Gilmore wrote:

>I have at least twice had Gerhard's experience, that of 1) sending a post 
>once, 

What were you using to post something? E-mail? using web-page? by postal dove? 
;-)


>2) receiving a LISTSERV message telling me that a discarded duplicate post was 
>being discarded, 

PITA. I have at least experienced it at least twice. But this can be attributed 
to slow internet traffic which I have experienced where messages to/from 
IBM-MAIN were missing each other on their travels.


>and 3) discovering that the 'discarded' post [or an unsent, ghostly 
>predecessor] had in fact appeared.

More PITA. I suspect that it could be the server reached some limits during 
handling of your attempts.

Groete / Greetings
Elardus Engelbrecht

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