We've had a case of lazy looping mail from BRODER.COM which you might
want to be aware of.
 
   This showed up on the WRITERS list here (VM1.NODAK.EDU/NDSUVM1).  I
noticed the WRITERS list had gone on hold, apparently for exceeding a
daily threshold of 150 messages/day.
 
   I found that mail appeared to be looping
 
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with
 
Subject: Message not deliverable
 
   The problem was that broder.com had completely replaced the headers with
their own.  A copy of one of the messages is included below.  Only the Sender
stayed intact but LISTSERV didn't catch that.  The number of messages between
the original and the duplicate exceeded the Daily-Threshold (set at 150).
The Subject wasn't one that LISTSERV checks for.  The original message was
not included in the mail, and the origin wasn't Postmaster...  The error was
not sent to the MAIL FROM address.
 
   In short, the mail system could hardly have done more to mask the original
mail origin.  You may want to make sure the From address is served out on
your system.
 
      Marty
 
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I climb out of the boat, dejected. Now that that knave Sir Loin has
overtaken me there seems to be no way of reaching the goddess first
since the journey is but a short one from here. But wait....
 
A woman with a dark-blue velvet cloth draped about her waiste
kneels at the edge of the only river that runs through this forest.
Her stringy brown hair is wrapped around her face and she doesn't
seem to notice my approach.
I'm startled when she asks me
if I'm searching for the Goddess; she is looking into the water.
I tell her I've been sent to
kill a dragon and that I hope the Goddess will guilde me.
She laughs and tells me to drink from the river.
 
- Sir Poetman of Poetica!!!