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Stan Horwitz <[log in to unmask]>
Wed, 8 Mar 2000 08:26:47 -0500
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On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Randy Ryan wrote:

> Some wanna-be set up a majordomo list of the same topic as a listserv list,
> then proceeded to sign up a bunch of people from the listserv list onto their
> list (the review command is by owner, the offender has been sitting around
> collecting addresses), including the list address itself.  Fortunately, the
> list is moderated, but as more people write to the majordomo list, at the
> moment mostly to complain, the more messages are being sent from the majordomo
> list to the listserv list address for approval.
>
> I was thinking initially of adding the majordomo list to the Filter= in the
> header file, but am afraid that is going to start a mail loop.
>
> Is there a safe way to block them until we can resolve the problem on their
> end?

If this happened to me, I would complain loud and clearly to the people
who maintain the system on which that majordomo software runs.

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