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Subject: mail list loop: mea culpa
From: woods @ ncar . ucar . edu (Greg Woods)
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 95 11:46:55 MST
To: list-managers @ greatcircle . com

I am about as red faced as I have been in a long, long time, but suffice
it to say that a cron script I was running was responsible for looping
every message I got from any mailing list that puts its own submission
address in the To: header (as many lists do) back to the list, due
to a call to "sendmail -t". Serves me right for running a script I
got from someone else without bothering to analyze it first.
(Naturally, it worked fine for *him* since he does not subscribe
to any mail lists and therefore the To: header never contained
anything but his own address).

My sincere apologies for the inconvenience this undoubtedly caused
everyone on these lists.

--Greg


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