James Knott wrote: > Funny thing. Just today, someone mentioned the list has reply set to > sender, instead of list, to avoid endless loops, even though I've never > seen such a thing on lists that don't set return to sender. I wonder, is there a difference in the users of those lists (i.e. more technically proficient), or in the volume on those lists? I can hardly imagine anyone subscribing to 5 or 10 lists with the volume of this list, don't see how they would have time left for anything else. But, the other lists I have signed up to over the years were more specialized and more highly technical, and probably moderated, and thus may reveal the reason there were no loops. I have seen mail loops, fortunately between one user's auto responder responding to an auto responder, which had an end when his mailbox reached his maximum limit. I see the potential here. > On the > other hand, this is the only list I subscribe to that does reply to > sender and it's also the only list I subscribe to that gives me these > bounced message notices. I received 180 tonight, though the are a > frequent occurance Perhaps someone should rethink which method causes > the problems and change this list to reply to the list. > > Without a moderator, and the volume of this list, I think it would be a nightmare. The first or second time my mailbox filled up with the endless messages (which would start bouncing me and hopefully eventually get me unsubscribed) would be enough for me to call it quits to this list.
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