* John (yonaton@tds.net) [030519 17:18]:
Well excuse the hell out of me! I didn't *know* what to do or what it was or why I got them, and asked here about it and not one answer said anything about what you just said *should* have been done.
The information you were sent when you subscribed (and asked politely to read) told you how to contact the list owner when you encounter problems with the list. I, of course, can't force you to read that but you probably shouldn't act so shocked when I expect that you have. This isn't just some BOFH power trip contrary to what you are probably thinking. Occasionally very broken mail servers (or malicious jackasses) start resending list mail back through the lists after removing all of the headers that would allow the software to detect the mail loop. That's not what this was but it easily could have been. The last serious mail loop we had caused almost 10 million messages to be sent in a matter of hours; if one of the subscribers on that list (it wasn't SLE) had bothered to email one of the correct contact addresses it would have been stopped in a matter of minutes instead of hours. -- -ckm