[comp.mail.misc] Help with mailing list & duplicates

davida@umd5.umd.edu (David Arnold) (07/06/90)

Hello there all,

    I hope this is a good place to submit this question.  If there is
a better group/source for the answer, I'd appreciate knowing.

    I'm running a mailing list from my DECstation 3100, and am being
troubled by duplicates.  The mailing list is fairly long, fluctuating
between 250 and 350 members.  It never fails, whenever I send to the
list, a second mail item is sent about 15 min - 1 hour after the first.

    The operating system I'm running on the machine is ULTRIX X4.0-10 
(Rev. 151).  I'm running the standard /usr/lib/sendmail program; the 
latest update date I can find is 6/89.

    I had gotten wind of a cron bug which caused problems when things
sat in a mail queue too long; could this be the reason?  Is it some-
thing else?  What do I need to do to fix it?

Any help is appreciated!  Please e-mail me; I don't get the chance to 
read the net too much...

Thanks in advance,
David Arnold  

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