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  • From: Ian Graham <igraham@ic-unix.ic.utoronto.ca>
  • To: Daniel Barclay <Daniel.Barclay@digitalfocus.com>
  • Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 19:13:29 -0500 (EST)


I seem to be getting duplicates also ..... but only of some messages.
There is nothing suspicious in the to: or cc: fields.

Ian


On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Daniel Barclay wrote:

> 
> xml-dev-help@lists.xml.org wrote:
> > 
> > Once again a subscriber created a mail loop.  ... messages ... began to be
> > re-submitted to this elist by a subscriber and hence were re-distributed
> > to all subscribers.
> 
> I think I'm still (or again) getting duplicate messages.
> 
> Is there a new instance of the problem, or am I just getting some
> previously-queued duplicates?
> 
> 
> > Unfortunately it is difficult to protect against subscribers who do
> > inappropriate things, whether accidental or malicious.
> 
> Can't the mailing list software detect a loop by adding a list-specific 
> header and not relaying any messages which already have that header?  
> 
> I've seen something like "mail-loop" or "list-loop" on some mailing lists
> I get.
> 
> 
> Daniel
> -- 
> Daniel Barclay
> Digital Focus
> Daniel.Barclay@digitalfocus.com
> 


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