When my email is received, Outlook Express automatically sorts my genealogy email to various folders: Names, Locations (cities, states, immigration), General, etc.  I am subscribed to almost 20 lists.  Before scanning over my messages, I sort them in subject order.  By doing this, I noticed that everyday I get two types of duplicate messages.  Mostly I get messages that someone posted to multiple groups (SCRoots,NCSCRoots, MarionSCRoots, etc.) That is just someone expecting to find information on a person in South Carolina.  However, occasionally, I receive exact duplicates of a message from the same group.  I found two causes for that.  One is that my isp server times out after a short while.  When I receive a large number of messages, the ISP times out and does not delete the received messages.  When I call back, I get a second copy of the same messages.  (Why it doesn't time out the second time is a mystery to me.) However, last week I did get duplicates from one or more listservers, but only one day.  This is not the norm.  I seldom get duplicates from the list, but it occurred about the time this thread began or shortly thereafter. If you are having problems, check with your ISP and let them monitor the situation for a while and they can tell you if the problem is theirs or the listservers. Hope this helps, Buck -----Original Message----- From: Elaine Maddox <elainetm@worldnet.att.net> To: GenTips-L@rootsweb.com <GenTips-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Wednesday, June 17, 1998 11:22 PM Subject: Re: Repeated messages >> Ref: Receipt more than once >> >> I have also received a number of messages doubled and even once or thice >> tripled. Have not taken the time to try to determine if there is any >> pattern to them or not. At this point they just seem to be randomly >> multiplied. >> >> Don Tate >> dtate@metrolink.net