I've just been bitten by a "vacation" autoresponder
setting up a loop with a mailman list I just started up.
5000 messages were sent to the members
of the list before it was caught. This is not
the first time that I've seen a massive loop
response to an email listserver at our institution,
(wher
J C Lawrence wrote:
> ...
> unsurprisingly the problem is due to vacation programs not complying
> to standards.
>
> This is one of the many reasons I hand moderate my lists. Another
> common approach is to limit the number of posts a given user can
> make per day/period without moderation overv
