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Hi Wayne, You are probably not aware that your e-mail software is configured to send back this sort of message to paleonet: > Confirmation of reading: your message - > > Date: 22 Nov 94 18:08 > To: PaleoNet@nhm.ac.uk > Subject: F in apatite > > Was read at 11:35, 22 Nov 94. I'm not an expert in these things, but I understand this works like this: the original posting's author's software was configured (inadvertently, I expect) to include in the message a request for confirmation of receipt. Your software is configured to respond automatically to such a request and send back a message like the one above. But for your software, the posting's originator is paleonet, so the confirmation is send back to paleonet -- i.e. to everybody on paleonet. Moreover, listservers are usually configured to distribute a posting to every subscriber -- excepting the posting's originator. So it's quite likely you're not even aware what your e-mail programme does behind your back. The solution is to reconfigure your software not to respond automatically to requests for RCPTs. How you do that depends on what programme you're actually using. Best wishes, Florin PS: I include the entire text of the RCPT message, which might be helpful should you ask your sysadmin/local computer guru's advice. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >From paleonet-owner@nhm.ac.uk Tue Nov 22 14:01:21 1994 Received: from mailserver.nhm.ac.uk by quartz.geology.utoronto.ca (5.65/1.34) id AA20192; Tue, 22 Nov 94 14:01:19 -0500 Received: (from root@localhost) by nhm.ac.uk (8.6.9/8.6.9) id SAA22699 for paleonet-outgoing; Tue, 22 Nov 1994 18:40:41 GMT Received: from flux.mtroyal.ab.ca (flux.MtRoyal.AB.CA [142.109.1.2]) by nhm.ac.uk (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id SAA22534 for <paleonet@nhm.ac.uk>; Tue, 22 Nov 1994 18:40:27 GMT Received: from underhill.mtroyal.ab.ca by MtRoyal.AB.CA (PMDF V4.3-10 #5924) id <01HJS1EGUMQ89ZOGEV@MtRoyal.AB.CA>; Tue, 22 Nov 1994 11:35:58 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pgate.MtRoyal.AB.CA by underhill.mtroyal.ab.ca (5.65/Ultrix3.0-C) id AA07214; Tue, 22 Nov 1994 11:41:16 -0700 Received: From TESTING/WORKQUEUE by pgate.mtroyal.ab.ca via Charon 3.4 with IPX id 100.941122113523.596; 22 Nov 94 11:35:42 -0700 Date: Tue, 22 Nov 1994 11:35:13 -0700 (MST) From: Wayne Haglund <WHAGLUND@common.MtRoyal.AB.CA> Subject: RCPT: F in apatite To: paleonet@nhm.ac.uk Message-Id: <MAILQUEUE-101.941122113513.123@common.mtroyal.ab.ca> Organization: MRC Academic Computing X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail v3.1 (R1) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Priority: normal Sender: owner-paleonet@nhm.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: paleonet@nhm.ac.uk Status: RO Confirmation of reading: your message - Date: 22 Nov 94 18:08 To: PaleoNet@nhm.ac.uk Subject: F in apatite Was read at 11:35, 22 Nov 94. -- Florin Neumann florin@quartz.geology.utoronto.ca
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