At 01:46 AM 3/11/01 , you wrote:
>We have hit a very odd problem at the maelstrom listserv that I think is a
>bug and potentially a security problem.
>
>I had a day earlier in the week, and then today where posts that had been
>submitted a few days earlier suddenly showed up on the list. The only
>difference, other than the header information I'll detail below, is the
>banner is duplicated.
>
>That is particularly odd is it appears that a roadrunner server is receiving
>the posts, then reinjecting the posts back to the listserv, and the listserv
>software is passing them on.
>
>I run a semi-moderated lists. Two of the posts I had to approve for
>distribution. The duplicates came though without requiring confirmation.
>Of the duplicates, non originate from roadrunner.
>
>Then, after getting the duplicates, another duplicate post claiming that it
>originated from my list address came back to me for approval.
>
>And a user just forwarded an error from the listserv claiming they had
>exceeded their posting limit. The post was another duplicate already posted
>(and not needing moderator approval) May 6.
All I can say is me too! I don't have any answers, but we also had 3 posts
resent to our list,
though they were each March posts.
Also on March 9, one subscriber received a notice that she had exceeded the
5-post limit on March 5. In addition to the odd 4-day "delay" in
Listserv's response, is that she only sent in 3 posts on that day, and even
the one that was "rejected" by Listserv on March 9 had gone through on March 5.
And, looking back at the headers, this also involved a roadrunner server.
Then, there was one subscriber who managed to post 6 messages on March 6
even though the 5-post limit was in effect using the Daily Threshold= command.
I, too, would be interested to hearing why these oddities have occurred.
Molly
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