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At 11:04 PM 1996/03/30 -0500, Geert K. Marien wrote:
> All of a sudden, a site (PATCHBAY.COM) started sending back all posts
>from one of my lists to the list with a From: field of the original
>poster!
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> Has anyone else had this happen?
We once had this happen to one of our lists. A system manager was setting
up a board on his system on which our list messages would appear. He
created an account called KIDCAFE from which he subscribed to our KIDCAFE
mailing list. The messages sent to [log in to unmask] were posted so
everyone on his system could read them.
Next he wanted to make it easier for kids on his system to send to KIDCAFE.
They had trouble with [log in to unmask], so he created an alias for
KIDCAFE on his system that pointed to the real list address. <sigh> We got
everything back we sent out.
We also had a similar problem with a different system. In that case there
were some user accounts on a system that reflected back all mail sent to
them. If I remember correctly, the postmaster account was among those
affected! In both of these cases, the problem was not intentional.
> Before I go about finding out if it is intentional, I want to know if
>there is someway to avoid this crap in the future. If it is
>intentional, I am already moving things towards doing something about
>them.
I assume that the duplicate messages were caught by LISTSERV so they were
not distributed to your list and that you have already deleted the
subscription causing the problem. I don't think there is much more that can
be done on our end. I'm afraid that stupidity is here to stay.
Peace, Dan
<< Daniel D. Wheeler - Education & Psychology, Univ. of Cincinnati >>
<< KIDLINK Director of Educational Services & Subscription Manager >>
<< Email: [log in to unmask] URL: http://www.uc.edu/~wheeler/ >>
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