>Looking at the archive of C18-L, to which I subscribe, I find 24 of
>them, all with the information that a message has been submitted to a
>list moderator, a different one in each (my guess is that it's all
>the moderated lists hosted at Penn State).  In each case the sender
>is identified as C18-L.  It looks very much like an internal problem
>at Penn State, not a virus. It also appears as though a loop started;
>later messages seem to be reporting that _that_ message had been
>submitted.  It doesn't look to me like a hacker, either.  My guess
>is, burp.
>

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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