Marty Hoag <NU021172@NDSUVM1>
Wed, 30 Nov 88 11:35:46 CST
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>Recently, the COCO list (on LISTSERV at PUCC) was plagued by a run-away
>auto-reply mailer which looped infinitely for a couple of days, flooding
>over 100 messages back to the list and generating thousands of outbound
>files.
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>... Would
>it be possible to add a limit on the number of files from a particular
>user? Or, failing that, for the list owner to specify the maximum number
>of files to go out per day?
In 1.5n the Daily-Threshold header option was added. It defaults
to 50 mailings a day. The list goes into HOLD when the threshold is
exceeded. (I had to increase a few here but haven't seen this happen
lately).
Also, judicious choice of list type (eg. Send=Editor) and Reply-to
can save a lot of grief for lists which may be redistributions of some
Internet list. Finally, the TRAPIN option of the local sysvars can be
added to save a lot of hassles. For example I have
TRAPIN = trapin 'SMTP@* postmaster@PSUVAX1'
(note the concatenation of the options).
Marty
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Marty Hoag
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