Mail list problem

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

>From these two header lines, that come from otherwise identical double
messages:

  Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org)
        by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1 (Debian))
!       id 13eV7g-0007xr-00; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 00:16:40 -0400

  Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org)
        by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1 (Debian))
!       id 13eV5t-0007mw-00; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 00:14:49 -0400

I   would   say   that   there    is   a   problem   with   esmtp   at
fencepost.gnu.org. By the way, why should it send a message to itself?
I would guess  that this is the  origin of a loop that  explain why we
keep receive the same messages over and over.


[root@triton /tmp]#  diff -c3 a c
*** a   Thu Sep 28 21:35:01 2000
--- c   Thu Sep 28 21:37:00 2000
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! From richard@brainstorm.co.uk Thu Sep 28 21:35:01 2000
  X-Coding-System: undecided-unix
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! From richard@brainstorm.co.uk Thu Sep 28 21:37:00 2000
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  List-Archive: http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/discuss-gnustep/
  Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 12:03:35 +0100
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! X-UIDL: 2aac684a0cdde007bca06b3c6a10bfa5
  
  On Mon, 25 Sep 2000 10:41:21 +0200, helge.hess@skyrix.com wrote:
  > richard@brainstorm.co.uk wrote:
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  Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 12:03:35 +0100
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! X-UIDL: 09059fad59a21d9386f56dbbc61310d7
  
  On Mon, 25 Sep 2000 10:41:21 +0200, helge.hess@skyrix.com wrote:
  > richard@brainstorm.co.uk wrote:




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