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  Gerrit Conradie <CONRADIE@fi*.su*.ac*.za*> wrote (Subject:
Duplicate/triplicate messages):-

> Can someone knowledgable please advice me what recourse to take to prevent
> the duplicate or even triplicate messages that are sent out by the list? Or
> is it the senders that are posting multiple messages? Somehow I doubt it,
> because the time-stamps on the duplicates are identical. This messages are
> reaching a bothersome volume.

  Sometimes a user's emailer is set up so that when he calls `Reply', when
working out what to put in the new message's To: line, it looks for a From:
line and a Sender: line and a Reply-to: line. If then, as sometimes happens,
user B receives from user A an email with the sender's name (here A) repeated
in the From: line and the Sender: line and the Reply-to: line, the resulting
new message's `To' line may contain A's email address 3 times. This frequently
happens with me. In my case, I delete the extra name entries out of the To:
line before I send the message. Perhaps sometimes people don't delete the
extra entries, and thus the message goes out 3 times, unless the (emailer that
distributes a copy to each name listed on the message's To: line) is clever
enough to weed out duplicates.

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