On Jun 12, 2015, at 5:04 AM, Vincent Slyngstad <v.slyngs...@frontier.com> wrote:

> There seem to be a number of messages from various folks
> where the reply address has been rewritten to 
> gene...@classiccmp.org<gene...@classiccmp.org>;discuss...@classiccmp.org:On-Topic
>  and Off-Topic Posts<cctalk@classiccmp.org>;
> instead of
> General discuss...@classiccmp.org:On-Topic and Off-Topic 
> Posts<cctalk@classiccmp.org>;
> 
> What is that about?  Could it be related to me getting delayed second copies 
> of stuff?

It happens because there’s some older mail clients being used which incorrectly 
parse the email address and create the gene...@classiccmp.org address when 
replying.

The problem with the duplicate messages is because messages from the cctalk 
list are also relayed to the moderated cctech mailing list, and vice-versa. 
What happens is the messages from cctalk go over to cctech, get approved, and 
then get sent back to the cctalk list. From my understanding of the mailing 
list software being used, it doesn’t have any built-in facility to prevent 
duplicates by checking for messages with the same Message-ID, and would require 
someone to spend a little time to cobble a helper script together, but no-one 
has yet, so the message duplication has continued for a year or so now.

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