The MEMS Clearinghouse extends its sincere apologies for the
multiple messages entitled "Glass to Glass bonding" that were sent
last Friday.  In particular, we extend our apologies to Tony Rogers of
Applied Microengineering, Ltd., whose message was unintentionally
delivered over and over to the members of the MEMS Electronic
Dicussion Group.  It was our error, and not his, that caused this to
happen.

        We have spent many hours actively investigating what caused
the multiple deliveries, including searching though 6 Mbytes of system
log messages.  All that we have found is that, after the mailing list
address expansion was applied to the outgoing message, "sendmail"
repeatedly delivered it at hourly intervals.  Our computer center
staff has diagnosed the problem as "mysterious"; there is no
indication of why sendmail decided to send the 11 copies of that
message, and no other message, that day.

        We are investigating alternative email transport programs,
such as the recently released "qmail", that may be more suitable than
"sendmail" for processing large Internet mailing lists.

                                        Craig Milo Rogers
                                        MEMS Clearinghouse