There is not much a list owner can do about it. But there is something the subscriber can do about it. The user here was using PMail (Pegasus) one of a number of mail packages that seem to automatically include the headers if you ask it to include the text in a reply. There are many who insist is SHOULD be that way. We LISTSERV lovers differ. The following appeared on the PMAIL list about a year ago. It is probably time to spread the word again. But I sit here scratching my head again as to why the original message about this to this list did not bounce. It had headers in the body of the mail--part of the included bounce. Oh well. Here it is. This seems to work. Tell your Pegasus users about it. ---------------------- When replying back to some mail (and including all text, headers and all), *please* make sure you do not include a space between your deliminator and the header information. Better yet, don't include the headers (CNTL-Y if using Pmail). For example: >From: userid >To: pmail@ua1vm >Sub: subject >----------------- > >Bill Gates eats prunes. > The above message should get sent correctly to the list and re-distributed. However..... > From: userid > To: pmail@ua1vm > Sub: Subject > ------------- > > Bill Gates eats prunes. ...this one will *not* get sent. LISTSERV will examine the body and reject the post due to "...possible mail loop. From: To: and Sub: appear in the body of the text." Please either try to (1) exclude the headers or (2) do not put a space between your deliminator (">" in this case) and the header information (which is usually not needed anyway). -------------------- On Thu, 14 Apr 1994 22:22:56 +0200 Eric Thomas said: >It is true, and unfortunately you can't do anything about it. You can >tell LISTSERV to let such postings through, but then you will loop have a >mailing loop. There are so many non-compliant mailers out there that this >protection just can't be removed. > > Eric