• From: Daniel Barclay <Daniel.Barclay@d...>
• To: xml-dev-help@l...
• Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 17:35:47 -0500

xml-dev-help@l... wrote:
> 
> Once again a subscriber created a mail loop.  ... messages ... began to be
> re-submitted to this elist by a subscriber and hence were re-distributed
> to all subscribers.

I think I'm still (or again) getting duplicate messages.

Is there a new instance of the problem, or am I just getting some
previously-queued duplicates?


> Unfortunately it is difficult to protect against subscribers who do
> inappropriate things, whether accidental or malicious.

Can't the mailing list software detect a loop by adding a list-specific 
header and not relaying any messages which already have that header?  

I've seen something like "mail-loop" or "list-loop" on some mailing lists
I get.


Daniel
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