Fedora 16's Performance

[Alan Stern]

On Thu, 15 Dec 2011, Ed Greshko wrote:

> > On 12/15/2011 10:02 AM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> > On 12/14/2011 05:27 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> >> If I recall correctly, you had another incident of getting multiple
> >> copies for another individual.  Are you by any chance sorting incoming
> >> emails into folders using rules?
> >
> > No.  With the exception of spam, everything goes into the Inbox and is
> > read in the order received.  The headers of the message claimed that
> > it was sent to this list, and the list was also listed in the CC line,
> > prompting my reply as it looked intentional.
> 
> OK....  Well, I would still wonder why you are getting 2 copies and I am
> getting only one.  If it was a sender issue then I would expect everyone
> on this list to be getting 2 copies. 
> 
> I am generally against using the list as a "test bed" but I've added
> Fedora into the Cc:  I will verify that only a single message goes out
> from my mail server (I fully control my mail server) and I will verify
> that I only get one copy of this message back from the list.  Maybe you
> can then verify how many copies of this email you are getting?

Mail clients differ.  It's quite possible that yours would filter out 
duplicate addresses and somebody else's would not.  (It's also possible 
that the list server would filter duplicates.)

As another test, I'm also putting the Fedora list into both the To: and 
CC: lines of this message.

Alan Stern