have you isolated the tag? If so why not just fix it.
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From: "Lon Lentz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "cftalk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 8:33 AM
Subject: How to stop an infinite CF loop?
>
>
> I had posted this question, in a slightly more vague
way, a couple weeks
> ago. Well, the theoretical happened and I was wondering if
anyone might have
> a solution to head off such future occurrences.
>
> It seems that a no-longer-here developer had written a
template where in
> when conditions were met, a custom tag was called, and an
email was
> generated. He had named his custom tag the same as the
calling template.
> Well, the conditions were finally met, and in the end,
some poor woman got
> 116,000 emails.
>
> So, with an example this time, is there a straight
forward way of shutting
> this loop down? Possibly a way of setting up a template to
do it? Someway
> other than shutting the service down? We ended up having
to kill the service
> to stop it. We initially tried making changes to the
template hoping to
> force it to error out...but the system had cached all of
the pertinent
> information and was on cruise control.
>
>
>
> Lon Lentz
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