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Mele20Premium
join:2001-06-05
Hilo, HI
kudos:4 | [bug] IM is sending duplicate/triplicate messages periodically Periodically, IM sends the same IM two or three times to the recipient. The recipient receives two or three copies of the message and wonders why I sent it several times. This happens about once a week and so far with only one member (a member I IM with frequently).
Apparently, the site eventually tries to correct itself because when I looked back today, to a week ago when this happened last, I found only one instance of the IM being sent. But it was sent twice and the recipient got two copies of the IM approximately 13 hours apart! I did not delete the second time the message got sent yet it is no longer in my IM history with this member so the site must notice its error at some point and delete all but one copy from my history?
I am posting about this because it happened again today and the recipient notified me about it. (I have no way of knowing that 2 or three (four one time) identical replies have been sent if I use the minireply rather than go to the main IM history page). Sure enough, today when the recipient mentioned he got three replies (all the same) from me earlier today, I went to IM History and there sits three identical replies from me. I only sent a reply ONCE. In today's case, the replies are not many hours apart but only a couple of minutes:
2012-02-02 03:04:42
2012-02-02 03:03:33
2012-02-02 03:01:29
It works the other way also. Sometimes, I receive two to four identical replies from this member. Sometimes they are minutes apart other times hours apart. I have not deleted any of the identical ones, yet, looking back in IM history, I see that the site eventually deletes all but one from my history but that does not happen quickly as I have seen them there for days.
I am at a loss as to why this is happening but it is beginning to be a bit irritating. Plus, I feel a bit of unease that the site is deleting messages out of my history without my permission (even if they are duplicate messages).
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 nilJava Geek
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| Re: [bug] IM is sending duplicate/triplicate messages periodical Duplication of IMs can sometimes happen thanks to some browser compatibility bugs, but if you're seeing duplicate IMs that later disappear, then the bug is more likely in the display of IMs. In other words, displays the same IMs more than once.
There's nobody deleting IMs behind the scenes, that would be far too much work.
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Mele20Premium
join:2001-06-05
Hilo, HI
kudos:4 | Thanks... nil. 
Come to think of it, I don't recall the problem when I was using Opera as my default browser for two years. But last March I came back to Fx. I do have an older version. Time to update it. I have the very latest SeaMonkey and Opera but mostly use Fx now so it may be at the root of the problem.
My friend gets the extra ones and sometimes I get extra copies of his to me. But that may be my fault in not upgrading Fx often enough.
I didn't really think anyone was hand deleting them.  If anything, the boredom of mine would put one to sleep.
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When governments fear people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. Thomas Jefferson | |
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