As I hypothesized offline to someone else... List servers send messages to a list of recipients.
If the list server s/w has a problem and crashes halfway through sending, only the first 50% of subscribers got the message. It restarts and begins sending all over again starting at the beginning of the list. Then this time maybe it makes it to 75% of subscdribers before crashing. Next time it only gets 25% through the list of subscribers. By this time, an administrator notices the problem and stops the repeated distribution attempts for that message. >From the above scenario, those in the first 25% got the message 3 times. Those in the second 25% group got the message 2 times. Those in the third 25% got the message 1 time. Those in the last 25% didn't get the message at all. Which explains why some don't get dupes, others get lots, others get a few, and some report low list traffic. It's just a theory but I'd bet something similar is happening. Carl -----Original Message----- From: Windows Home/SOHO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robbie Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 8:02 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Dup list msgs For what its worth, I haven't received any dup messages, but was wondering why the voulmn of messages I have been receiving has been way down lately. Just thought that people were just not participating that much on the list lately. -- ---------------------------------------- WIN-HOME Archives: http://PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM/archives/WIN-HOME.html Contact the List Owner about anything: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html -- ---------------------------------------- WIN-HOME Archives: http://PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM/archives/WIN-HOME.html Contact the List Owner about anything: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html
