I apologize for not having included my standard disclaimer in my previous
posting:
1. If you are not happy with the code or documentation, you don't have to
use it; you're free to write your own, and to make it better.
2. If you are not satisfied at the support I provide for either software
or questions, you don't have to use it; I distribute the source code
free of charge with the software, and you can always refer to it if
you have unanswered questions, or make changes if you don't like the
way it is working.
As a list owner you are responsible for the configuration of your list.
If you choose to introduce keywords in the list header that you have
never heard about, fine, but you might want to consider the
appropriateness of using the lack of current documentation as a
justification for the use of options whose meaning is unknown to you. The
keyword name, "Loopcheck", strongly suggests a relationship to loop
checking and relevance to the problem you have described.
As it stands, after reading your problem report I have come to the
conclusion that this kind of error messages should be trapped unless your
server is running 1.6d or older, noted with surprise that your server is
indeed running 1.6e, double-checked the headers again, concluded that
there must be some serious bug, carefully inspected the code, run several
tests on my test LISTSERV, and failed to reproduce the problem. I thought
about it for a while, REVIEWed the list to see how it was set up, and
found that you had disabled loop checking. Bottom line, over 20 minutes
of time wasted over a self-inflicted problem.
The "Loopcheck=" keyword was implemented because a number of people were
requesting it so aggressively that I decided it would be better to spend
10 minutes implementing it than hours answering their endless downpour of
arguments, plus they were making local changes to turn it off on their
server anyway - with the side-effect that lists where they did not want
it turned off were also affected. Anyway to re-enable loop checking all
you have to do is remove the keyword.
Eric
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