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From: ront@picea.CFNR.ColoState.EDU (Ronald Thomas)
Subject: Re: endless summer mail loops
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Date: Tue, 14 Jun 1994 13:15:21 GMT
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In article <9406131529.AA01522@aries.saic.com> grassu-list@max.cecer.army.mil writes:
Evidently the original "zipcode boundary" message was being rebroadcast
due to some sort of email looping problem, so all replies to it are also
going to be rebroadcast many, many times.....
We've seen this happen yearly about this time, as systems
administators remove the accounts of people who have moved on, but the
people "forgot" to unsubscribe from the lists -- the mailer-daemans start
answering automatically that "no one is home", and the loop begins. One
solution is to read all the good stuff on the lists via a newgroup
(i.e., info.grass.user), instead of having it sent to you as "mail". Of
course, your network has to be set up for this, but if it is, I've found this
to be it a much easier and less stressfull way to "listen in".
Ron Thomas
ROMO-GIS