well, i was actually referring to posts that had already been viewed. 
the repeated posts arent new, i have read them before.

:P

James Andrews wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 01:57:47PM -0500, pete moss wrote:
> > is anyone else getting old posts showing up.  today i got two messages
> > from 7/8/99.  it seems every few days, some old messages show up, from
> > old threads.  anyone else having this problem, or is my machine belching
> > these from /dev/null ?
> 
> Comment from list administrator, james@maths.ex.ac.uk
> 
> Maybe you mean the messages which aren't posted to csound@maths.ex.ac.uk
> from a valid sender address...which then bounce to list admin...which I then
> forward when I have the time, which isn't that often
> 
> Moral: please alway send your messages to csound@maths.ex.ac.uk from the
> email account you subscribed from.  If you really need to use an alternative