There has  been a "loop"  on 9370-L  this evening. I  say "loop" because  I am
almost  certain this  is not  due to  LISTSERV. A  zillion (well  actually 21)
copies of the same  mailfile have been distributed to the  list. The mail body
itself does not contain anything strange at  all - no complaint from a gateway
or mailer. The file came from DEDOUREK@UNB (MVS/XA JES2 site, probably running
UCLA-Mail?)
 
If you look at the 'Date:' fields  in the distributed mail files, you will see
that all of them are differents. There are two possibilities:
 
1. These were generated by LISTSERV.  This is impossible since the timezone is
   AST whereas the timezone of LISTSERV@HEARN is MET.
 
2. They were generated by something else.  In that case, we have several input
   files to LISTSERV and this is not  a LISTSERV bug. Note that LISTSERV would
   have  stopped  after  (the  list's)  DAILY-THRESHOLD  files  anyway,  which
   defaults to 50.
 
The present situation is this:
 
- The list  is held, and  will remain so until  the problem is  identified and
  fixed.
 
- I have  purged over 600  files on HEARN-FRMOP22,  which was very  tedious (I
  wish you could just  PURGE FRMOP22 /9370-L MAIL/ :-) ). For  each file I had
  to do  a Q F  spoolid VM. I  didn't do  it by hand  of course, but  with the
  REJECTED BY TASK  XXX - PREVIOUS COMMAND  ACTIVE it took a lot  of passes to
  have the link cleaned up.
 
- I  am assuming  that a  bunch of  files are  accumulating on  the reader  of
  [log in to unmask] Hans-Ulrich will have to purge them manually...
 
- Rob has cleaned up  the list archives (I have a copy of  the original log if
  anyone's interested).
 
Eric
 
PS: Here's an excerpt of a few of the headers...