[ST] Apologies to list and off topic request for assistance

["William Flowers" <waflowers@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

A number of weeks ago my company's Microsoft Exchange server became 
corrupted (how, I don't know) and started bouncing all email back to the 
sender.  This was seen on the list as a flood of duplicate messages.  I was 
away on a business trip and was unaware of what was happening until some 
days later. I know nothing about administering MicroSoft products anyway.  
The server administrator was also travelling on business at the same time.

Before either of us got back to the office Eric had diagnosed my company's 
server as the source of the duplicates and had rightly unsubscribed my 
account from the ST list.

Our server administrator assured me that the problem which caused the ST 
mail to duplicate had been fixed some weeks ago now, so a few hours ago I 
resubscribed.  According to Eric the list immediately began seeing 
duplicates again.

I'd like to take this opportunity to publicly apologize on behalf of my 
company (I am one of the partners) to Eric Sheley and the list as a whole 
for the problems we have caused.  I'd also like to reassure all of you that 
it won't happen again.  Even after I become confident that our server 
problem is corrected, I will not resubscribe using an office account.  
Obviously I can't trust our server, or our administrator.

Now for the plea: our administrator who admits he is in over his head and 
cannot figure out what is causing the problem.  Is there anyone on the list 
who can offer any advice I could pass on to the administrator.  Remember, I 
am not likely to understand what you are saying.

Also, if you reply, please do so off-list.  My company's problems have 
already caused too much extra traffic on this list.

- --
Bill "Bench Dawg" Flowers
aka "Crash Test Dummy Dawg"

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