What's "up" is more than likely a problem w/ your ISP and/or your browser:
All my "duplicate, quadruplicate" and sometimes even six-tuplicate copies of identical messages turned out to be the result of one of two causes (not always the same, and frustrating because it is recurrent -- which makes you think it MUST be a problem w/ the "system". It's not.
After months and months, much frustration, and many hrs on the phone w/ Symantec, my ISP, the delightful Netscape Navigator folks, and the Mfrs of all my various PC's (Gateway, Dell, Sony, and IBM), we finally figured it out(quite a commentary on how low my IQ is). Nevertheless, there have been no recurrences at all since I began taking the appropriate precautions:
PC's (any of them) periodically reset themselves - as do your ISP's servers - to default values. And more often than you'd think; i.e., when the cache on your e-mail software or browser fills up it will clear itself and reset to default values; when the system crashes and you have to re-boot from the original System O/S CD's, whatever.
The point is that: when you set up your Browser, or re-set "Preferences", whether or not to "save a copy of each message on the ISP's server or not".
The ISP's servers periodically dump their "cache" (actually a huge TB-sized
HDD) and download to you; if you're not there, they back it up, and send
it again later. Notice that you always get the extra's in multiples of
two? This is why. Either you get
a) the one message you are supposed to receive (1), or
b) you get the original+the duplicate you told the ISP to save on its
Server(2), or,
c) you get double the original(2), or
d) double the original+ISP's extra (4), or
e) double the backed-up pair (6), etc, etc.
Make sense?
Since I began checking those toggles every time I start getting duplicates or quads, and re-set them, I have had no further mysterious 2's, 4's, 6's, or 8's.
Hope this helps you. :-)
DeBow
Multiple Bogeys wrote:
Well, sometime in the last week the remaining missing image "Fractal Burst" got posted, or whatever. Hopefully this can therefore be the last word on the subject. Strange how it got blown out of all proportion into a federal case! In any event, I won't continue the thread beyond this point. Meanwhile, I'm noticing some duplicate postings appearing -- I got two copies of one posting and four copies of another one recently. What's up?
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