On 12-Jan-99 Robert Williams wrote:
Stop! Is anyone a SuSE paying attention?
tpcadmin@info.tpc.int wrote:
**MESSAGE FROM THE TPC.INT SINKHOLE**
I have to support this. Normally we should lie low and do nothing while mail-loops roll, but it has gone on too long. Below, for general information, is a message I sent at 19:24 GMT to owner-suse-linux-e, to which there has been no perceptible response. Meanwhile (it is now past midnight GMT, 5 hours later) over 100 more of these have arrived making nearly 1.5MB in total. I know list-admins have to sleep (I'm one myself); but by now there's nowhere significant on Earth that has not enjoyed several hours of daylight (or darkness, if you're nocturnal) while these have been coming in. This list needs attention. Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear owner-suse-linux-e@suse.com We now have TWO mail-loops going on suse-linux-e: 1: with tpcadmin@info.tpc.int which has been going on most of the day. and some messages have now reached over 30K as a result of accumulation; 2: with "Postmaster For jules.com" <postmaster@jules.com> as a result of a mailbox filling up which is bouncing back the looping mail from (1) as well as its own. Since (in common with others) I have no way of filtering this mail before receiving it via dialup (which is costing me money), I would very much appreciate it if these loops were killed AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. Someone commented earlier that we are vulnerable to this situation because the mailer software for suse-linux-e rewrites the "Reply-To:" to point to the list. It seems that it would be a good idea to change this too. With thanks, and best wishes, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Date: 11-Jan-99 Time: 19:24:14 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Date: 12-Jan-99 Time: 00:41:24 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>