Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/16

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Subject: Re: [Leica] duplicate messages: a discovery
From: Barney Quinn <barney@ncep.noaa.gov>
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 21:33:37 -0400
References: <266040306.997985110@sgathan.reid.org>

Brian,

Carry on. Doesn't bother us Unix guys a bit! :-)

Barney

Brian Reid wrote:

> Through the years there have been various grumblings from LUG subscribers about duplicated email. I usually check these complaints carefully and I never found anything.
>
> A few weeks ago many of you will remember an onslaught of duplicate messages which I ultimately tracked down to Ngoi Sing Teck in Myanmar who was (probably without knowing it) looping hundreds of messages from his inbox back to the list. I added a mechanism to the LUG software that blocked such messages, and I haven't had any complaints about duplicated email since.
>
> I installed this loopback-preventer on July 23. Since then there have been dozens of people looping back a message or two. The guilty software has always been Microsoft Outlook (never Outlook Express). I never would have discovered the problem had it not been for the avalanche of looped-back messages from Myanmar, but there wasn't another avalanche.
>
> Today michaela@kirk.ca looped back 190 messages to the LUG, which would have been delivered to all of you had it not been for the prevention software.
>
> Now I find myself wondering two things:
>
> 1) What madness in Microsoft Outlook causes it to do this, and
> 2) How long has this been going on?
>
> You probably find yourself wondering one thing:
>
> 1) Brian, why don't you shut up and go take some pictures.

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