On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 09:39:11AM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote:
> Steve Crowder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > [...] I have now received as fourteen separate instances at these times:
> [...]
> > All mails are identical and I'm sure Charles is not resending the same mail.
>
> Nope, just the once.
>
> > Does anyone know why this should be happening or better still how to fix it ?
FWIW We see this very, very, very rarely. I've never seen it in email from
this list.
> I see this too sometimes; it seems to be bursty. I'll get lots of duplicates
> for a day or two, then none for a week or three. Dan has mentioned in the
> past that packet loss on the UIC link during the day regularly hits 25% --
> since list.cr.yp.to sits on that network, it might be not seeing the
> successful response to the DATA command if the connection gets broken before
> then, and therefore has to re-send the mail (and logging "possible dupe"
> messages in Dan's logs).
>
> I do note that the duplicates are generally received on weekdays during
> North American office hours, and I only notice them on mail coming from
> list.cr.yp.to -- not from other ezmlm-managed lists.
>
> Perhaps djb himself could comment on whether the network saturation at
> UIC is causing duplicates?
cfm
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