Thanks for the tip. I got so desperate (3200 messages in 2 hours),
I just filtered the networks at the router, turned off all of our external MX
records and am hoping for the best...

-Carl



At 05:06 PM 8/6/97 -0400, you wrote:
>On Wed, 6 Aug 1997, Carl Forsythe wrote:
>
>> We run a 1 way product announce list, and one of our recipients has gone
>> on vacation...since no postings are allowed to the list, the vacation reply
>> comes in to listserv which tries to process it...which serves the user
>> off, sends a reply back to the user, and once again the vacation program
>> replies
>> starting the whole process over again.
>>
>> i.e. vacation->listserv (serve off user)->vacation->listserv->vacation
>> etc...
>>
>> any hints? clues soluitions?
>> The user has been unsub'd at this point...to no avail...
>
>How about adding the deleted subscriber to the config variable FILTER
>ALSO which should stop messages in one direction and therefore break the
>loop.
>  John
>
>