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Subject: Re: Vexing listserv problem
From: Bryan Fullerton <bryanf @ home . samurai . com>
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 05:38:39 -0500 (EST)
To: List-Managers @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <199702220900.BAA02073@miles.greatcircle.com> from List-Managers-Digest at "Feb 22, 97 01:00:43 am"

> 
> Good thing too. Because I am getting a deluge of this mail from 
> mostly LSoft LISTSERVs. Another example is appended below. It seems
> the listinfo guy is creating a mail loop by sending requests from 
> list of listservs and then routing the replies to the same list of 
> listservs. I don't know if this is maliciousness or merely 
> cluelessness.

I've gotten 30-50 messages from LISTSERV's coming into my server in 
the past 12 hours.  Fortunately, I'm running majordomo 1.94.1, which 
appears to be smarter than LISTSERV is... 

Feb 22 02:25:37 samurai.com majordomo[16767] {"L-Soft list server at AMERICAN.EDU (1.8c)"              <LISTSERV@AMERICAN.EDU>} ABORT majordomo@samurai.com: not replying to LISTSERV to avoid mail loop.
Feb 22 02:57:51 samurai.com majordomo[16788] {"L-Soft list server at LUGB.LATROBE.EDU.AU (1.8c)"              <LISTSERV@lugb.latrobe.edu.au>} ABORT majordomo@samurai.com: not replying to LISTSERV to avoid mail loop.
Feb 22 03:02:32 samurai.com majordomo[16801] {"L-Soft list server at UofA (1.8c)"              <LISTSERV@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>} ABORT majordomo@samurai.com: not replying to LISTSERV to avoid mail loop.
Feb 22 03:36:32 samurai.com majordomo[17086] {"L-Soft list server at Syracuse University (1.8c)"              <LISTSERV@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>} ABORT majordomo@samurai.com: not replying to LISTSERV to avoid mail loop.
Feb 22 03:37:30 samurai.com majordomo[17094] {"L-Soft list server at HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM (1.8c)"              <LISTSERV@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM>} ABORT majordomo@samurai.com: not replying to LISTSERV to avoid mail loop.
Feb 22 03:45:05 samurai.com majordomo[17107] {list.server.at.Finnish.University.&.Research.Network" <LISTSERV@LISTSERV.FUNET.FI>" (1.8b)} ABORT majordomo@samurai.com: not replying to LISTSERV to avoid mail loop.

But the e-mail bounced to majordomo-owner is getting annoying.

Bryan



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