Re: Majordomo results

[Matti Aarnio]

On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 10:35:45AM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 11:26:19AM +0100, Ketil Froyn wrote:
> > On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, [e-mail] wrote:
> > > >>>> auth 27467a8e subscribe linux-kernel [e-mail]
> > > Succeeded.
> > This could get interesting...
> 
> 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.

  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.)

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> Russell King ([e-mail])                The developer of ARM Linux
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/Matti Aarnio   --  co-postmaster of vger.kernel.org