Re: [SLUG] [semi-rant] Debian, DFSG, Gentoo and .NET

From: Chad Perrin (perrin@apotheon.com)
Date: Thu Jul 29 2004 - 12:13:59 EDT


R.G. Mayhue wrote:

> On Thursday 29 July 2004 01:48 am, Chad Perrin wrote:
>
>>Chad Perrin wrote:
>>
>>>Chad Perrin wrote:
>>>
>>>Holy crap. I have no idea how this ended up sent to the list five
>>>times. I only clicked "send" once. Please don't crucify me. In fact,
>>>when I clicked send was a good 7.5 hours before I received five copies
>>>of this in my inbox.
>>
>>On second thought, I think something got wedged in my email client, and
>>it's probable that nobody else saw these multiple copies of the email. If
>>that's the case, feel free to ignore the above statement.
>
>
> Nope... you are not the only one who got them.
>
> You are lucky if you only got 5... I got 10. I also got 10 copies of Ronan's
> "Oops" reply.
>
> Hmm... maybe a list hiccup?
>

Actually, I got those other five and Ronan's ten just after I sent that message
about ignoring my previous email, but at that point figured I'd forget about it
and wait to see if anyone else complained of a similar problem. I restarted my
email client on the assumption that it might be something associated with it
being in some kind of argument with my mail server, and hadn't received any more
phantom echoes, but was apparently just a happy coincidence.

-- 
Chad Perrin (apotheon .com .net .org)
http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/S/sig-block.html
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