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Article #18Multiple copies of Info-Kermit Digest
From: Frank da Cruz
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 1991 17:52
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 1991 17:52
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Apologies for the multiple copies of the Info-Kermit Digest that most of you have been receiving. In case you are curious, here is a sketchy explanation of why this is happening. There is a bug in our Unix mail system that nobody has been able to fix. When a digest is sent, a message queue is created. The Unix mail delivery agent, sendmail, removes you from the queue after you get your copy of the Digest. But the Info-Kermit mailing list is huge, so the queue never fully disappears -- there are always some subscribers that can't be reached. Whenever our computer is restarted, the updated mail queue is lost because of some funny business with lock files, the original queue reappears, and the Digest is resent to everybody. Sorry for the inconvenience. - Frank
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!bionet!agate!ucbvax!WATSUN.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU!fdc From: fdc@WATSUN.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Frank da Cruz) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit Subject: Multiple copies of Info-Kermit Digest Message-ID: <CMM.0.90.0.663357155.fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu> Date: 8 Jan 91 17:52:35 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Info-Kermit@watsun.cc.columbia.edu Organization: The Internet Lines: 14 Approved: info-kermit@cu20b.columbia.edu