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Subject: Fw: BOUNCE and Zombie Processes
From: "Siamak Farah" <sia @ infostreet . com>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 11:19:45 -0800
To: <list-managers @ GreatCircle . COM>, <majordomo-workers @ GreatCircle . COM>



>This is an old question I have asked a zillion people, but have never
>received a working answer. Am I doing something wrong, or is this a bug.
>
>I have a closed list. Only list members can post to it. Whenever someone
>posts that is not authorized to do so, it generates a BOUNCE message.
>However, instead of sending the bounce to the sender, it sends it back to
>the list. Since the list itself is not authorize to send to itself, it
>BOUNCES again. So on and so forth, till the email gets to be greater than
>40k. Then a new series of messages. Result: Machine crawls and we get
zombie
>processes.
>
>This must be so simple, how can I get the bounce message to go to the
>sender, not to the list?
>
>Please help a very frustrated sole.
>
>Siamak Farah
>sia@infostreet.com



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