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! > > 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/ >>