On Sat, 3 Mar 2007, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
> John Andersen wrote:
> > On Friday 02 March 2007, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
> >> 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
> > This instance wasn't just any bounces, it was over two months worth
> > of my own posts, only my posts.  The first was posted 1/1/07 the last
> > was posted just today.
> >
> > I get the occasional bounce and vacation message from posting on suse
> > lists but this is the first time I've seen a bounce fest like this, so I 
> > don't
> > think we can blame it on list configuration (yet again). Its Mr 
> > Glötzl-Koch's
> > fault and no body elses.
> >
> My point was IF the policy was different, and that was a normal
> happening, i.e. someone's vacation or auto responder sent to the list,
> which sent back to them, which returned the message to the list, etc.,
> or at least as common here someone just getting started and having their
> mail server mis configured and bouncing to the list INSTEAD of the
> current policy of replies being sent to the sender, then it would be
> enough trouble for me to learn somewhere else.  I have learned much over
> the 7 years or so I have been here, but it has not always been easy to
> wade through.  We have all got those bounces if we have posted over the
> years, and I am just reiterating I agree with the present policy, and IF
> there was a change, THEN the first time it filled my mailbox with
> bounces may be enough to send me packing (I probably would wait til the
> second, we all make mistakes.  Especially since with Linux you have the
> power to change things, I can be optimistic.).

One list I am on sent over 200 email in an hour because of the vacation
auto responder loop.  Finally a sys opt noticed it and removed his account
but the damage was already done.  That is why I really like the way this
list is configured.  That list has had it happen many times.  One other
list has done the same.  I have never seen the mail loop problem with a
list configured like this.

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