Kinda what I feared! Does anyone have any suggestions about my original query then (about 'affilate' members a couple of threads back)?
Thanks --- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 12:06 AM -0700 2004/05/10, Barnaby Scott wrote: > > > Does anyone know the consequences of setting up > two > > lists which are members of each other? > > I believe that would be very bad news. > > > Presumably the X-BeenThere header should come > into > > play to avoid such an eventuality, but will it > work in > > these circs? Or even if it does work, should one > not > > do this sort of thing for other reasons? > > The risk is that you will have set up a potentially > serious loop, > for which there is only one way to detect and stop > it before there is > a melt down. All it would take is a misconfigured > client or MTA to > remove certain headers before sending the message > on, and you and > everyone else would be toast. > > Before you take a shotgun with a hair trigger and > load it with > thermonuclear shells, you might want to give some > consideration to > what it might do when you go away and leave it > pointed in your > direction -- especially when there are children and > pets around, any > one of which might accidentally set it off. > > -- > Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a > little temporary > safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." > -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of > Pennsylvania. > > SAGE member since 1995. See > <http://www.sage.org/> for more info. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/
