# Possible clue to our problems? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [June 4, 2020, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-clue-to-our-problems/855056 "2020-06-04T16:36:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2020, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-clue-to-our-problems/855056/1 "2020-06-04T16:36:14Z")
I just noticed something new today. I typically receive 2 notifications of new posts each time one happens. Why 2? Don’t know, but 2 has been “normal” for a long time. Besides the numerous timeouts and slowness today, I have been receiving MORE THAN TWO emails for each notification. The duplicates have the _same_ time stamp, and they are _exact copies._ At 11:01AM Chicago time today, I received 6 notifications of one post. Since then, each notification has been duplicated from 3 to 4 times. **TubaDiva** , does this observation make any sense to our (nonexistent) techies? ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2020, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-clue-to-our-problems/855056/2 "2020-06-04T16:42:09Z")
My email inbox is now getting flooded with multiple, duplicate notices in the last hour. Anyone else have this happen? ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2020, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-clue-to-our-problems/855056/3 "2020-06-04T16:45:48Z")
I’ll see if they can reset the mail server. Sorry this is happening. Jenny your humble TubaDiva Administrator ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2020, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-clue-to-our-problems/855056/4 "2020-06-04T17:33:15Z")
I just received **16** notifications of a single post, with the same time stamp (12:15PM). Is this just me or is anyone else getting stuff like this? Nothing else in my email inbox is getting duplicated except SDMB. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2020, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-clue-to-our-problems/855056/5 "2020-06-04T17:40:17Z")
Sorry,\*\* Colibri,\*\* I have no idea how this thread got duplicated; I took pains – I thought – to avoid such. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2020, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-clue-to-our-problems/855056/6 "2020-06-04T22:47:10Z")
Is this still going on? I did report the problem. Jenny your humble TubaDiva Administrator ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2020, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-clue-to-our-problems/855056/7 "2020-06-04T23:35:46Z")
I was receiving multiple notices for a few hours after I posted, but this has been reduced to the “normal” 2 at a time now. I still don’t know why I should get 2, but this has been going on for years. Maybe my email addr exists somewhere on SDMB as a duplicate. I’d be interested in hearing if anyone else has this problem. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2020, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-clue-to-our-problems/855056/8 "2020-06-05T04:14:18Z")
Maybe this is a parallel universe and the Musicat on the other side is complaining he never gets his email. His little goatee twitches with aggravation. Jenny your humble TubaDiva Administrator That’s my theory and I’m sticking to it. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2020, 9:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-clue-to-our-problems/855056/9 "2020-06-05T09:32:03Z")
In the last 8 hours, I have received either 2 or 3 email notices for each post with the same timestamp each time. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2020, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-clue-to-our-problems/855056/10 "2020-06-05T12:01:22Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > I just received **16** notifications of a single post, Was it an extremely noteworthy post? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2020, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-clue-to-our-problems/855056/11 "2020-06-05T12:37:53Z")
I’m guessing that it’s the same phenomenon that causes double posts (whatever that is). ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2020, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-clue-to-our-problems/855056/12 "2020-06-05T13:50:57Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Was it an extremely noteworthy post? Hardly. 🙂 > [@Chronos](#): > > I’m guessing that it’s the same phenomenon that causes double posts (whatever that is). I don’t see a direct connection. Double posts are usually caused by the server accepting a post, but displaying an error instead of the post, causing the poster to think that it didn’t go thru. The poster tries again, and again, it is accepted, but not displayed. This continues until the poster gets tired of the game or sees one or more of his posts displayed. Email from the automatic notify function isn’t something a user can trigger. All of the duplicate emails pointed to the same post and had an identical timestamp. I do think that there may be some larger, fundamental flaw in the system that causes many problems – maybe that’s what you meant. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2020, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-clue-to-our-problems/855056/13 "2020-06-05T15:06:19Z")
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