>Today I received about 30 of these messages from lists to which I do not
>subscribe.  All came from Penn State (psu.edu) and were sent to various of my
>email addresses.  Computer burp, student prank or virus?  I subscribe to one
>PSU mailing list whose name did not appear on any message.
>
>"Your message dated Mon, 18 Feb  2002 14:19:07 -0500 with subject "Sambo,
>Judo, Kickboxing, Muay Thai from Quantum Jujitsu at Penn State" has been
>submitted  to  the  moderator  of  the  CIS-TEST  list:  Heather  Herzog
><[log in to unmask]>."

The owner of the L-QUANTUM-JUJITSU list had foolishly subscribed a number of other lists to his list.  However, a number of these lists are edited, so when he sent his mail, it was forwarded to various list moderators.

The problem was the notification about this was sent **back** to L-QUANTUM-JUJITSU rather than to the owner that sent the original message and that notification was redistributed.  Since it was from the magic [log in to unmask] address, it was actually sent on to all the sub-lists.  It appears like most of the affected lists got about 20 of these messages before we were able to step in and stop the process.
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