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On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 10:35:45AM +0000, Russell King wrote:
>> No it won't.  davem has put protection against such mail loops into
>> this version of majordomo.  Its a real shame that people are so stupid
>> that they try this.

On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 12:44:55PM +0200, Matti Aarnio wrote:
>   It just generates looped messages that are bounced to the list owner.
>   Subscriber's message had these headers:  (yes, we do log EVERYTHING
>   sent to Majordomo.. We don't log everything sent to the lists, though.
>   There are a number of archives for that.)

Could these DoS attempts get filtered somehow?


Thanks,
Bill
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