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[Cameron McCormack]

Steven Haigh:
> Looks like someone at monash has got too clever with mail processing and has
> started sending old mail back to the list....

According to monash.downtime:

> From: Andrew.Treloar at its.monash.edu.au
> Newsgroups: monash.downtime
> Subject: ITS Advisory Notice - (Re)delivery of Email - Tuesday 29-Oct-2002 - ALL - Urgent
> Date: 29 Oct 2002 16:48:44 +1100
> 
>   ITS Advisory Notice - (Re)delivery of Email - Tuesday 29-Oct-2002 - ALL - Urgent
> 
> WHAT: 
> 
>     At present, users of staff email may be receiving mail with one
>     or more of the following characteristics:
>     o the mail was originally sent last week
>     o the mail has not subject line
>     o the mail is addressed to undisclosed recipients
>     o the mail is received more than once
> 
> WHEN: Tuesday 29-Oct-2002 1000 hrs - 2300 hrs 
> 
> (End time is an estimate only at this stage.)
> 
> WHERE: 
> 
>     ALL
> 
> WHY: 
> 
>     The outage on the staff mail server last week left us with
>     approximately 11,000 emails that were not delivered. Moreover,
>     the control information that the server uses to process these
>     emails was damaged in the outage. As a result we have had to
>     write a manual program to process and deliver these emails. While
>     we realise that it is annoying to received old/duplicate
>     messages, we felt it was better to err on the side of caution and
>     deliver everything we had. The alternative would have left some
>     critical messages undelivered, which is unacceptable.
> 
> ITS apologises for any inconvenience caused by this action. 
> 
> CONTACT: Andrew Treloar,+61 3 990 51138
>          mailto:Andrew.Treloar at its.monash.edu.au
> 
> ITS Reference: 1029.2
> 
> NOTIFICATION HAS BEEN SENT TO:
> 
>     downtime-l at its.monash.edu.au

I think it's better to get these repeat messages, rather than lose some.

Cameron

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Cameron McCormack
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