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Jim Chick-2

Can someone please tell me why we now appear to get numerous repeat copies
of the complete digest listings.  It is very tedious and time wasting.

73 Jim G4NWJ


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Re: Repeat Postings

David Woolley (E.L)
Jim Chick wrote:
> Can someone please tell me why we now appear to get numerous repeat copies
> of the complete digest listings.  It is very tedious and time wasting.

Assuming it isn't a deliberate denial of service attack, someone who
doesn't know how to use their email client is trying to reply (or post
by tail-ending) to a non-MIME list digest (or using a mail client with
particularly poor MIME digest handling), without pruning it, and is
failing to realise the havoc they are causing.  I suspect it may prove
necessary to bar them from the list.

I'm not sure why we aren't getting the complete digest as I didn't think
that gmail had particularly small size limits.

non-MIME digests should only be used for replies as a last resort and
only if you have a thorough understanding of the internals of internet
email protocols.  Whilst you can prune out the other articles, you will
still break threading.

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David Woolley
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