>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.
>
>...  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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