On 28 Oct 2008 10:38:21 EDT, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >>Please correct me if I am wrong, but this type of thing has happened to > >>the list before, right? I seem to remember it happening to someone > >>else a while back, but I cannot find it in the archives at the moment. > > > >Sure. Not allot but it has happened before. I think Chris usually > >puts a block on things like this to stop it, if nothing else is > >possible. > > I do but I was on vacation (in Italy!) last week. Someone eventually > notified the overseers mailing list about this. Someone there *should* > have been able to block the messsages from arriving. I don't know if > that is what happened or if things were fixed on the sending end but > sending email to either postmaster or overseers will contact the right > people.
Neither postmaster nor overseers ever responded, AFAIK. I think the sending end eventually gave up. I got the bounce message included at the end of this message, after which the duplicated messages stopped. I'm still not sure what was happening under the hood (on either side) though. One thing we suspect is that the lack of a Message-ID field in the header reduces the ability of the receiving side to automatically stop posting these duplicated messages to the list. As such, making the Message-ID field a requirement for posting to the cygwin mailing lists might not be a bad idea. FYI, over the last month, the only message that came in without the Message-ID field (besides my own) was spam. Herb. >From MAILER-DAEMON Fri Oct 24 21:44:33 2008 Return-Path: <> Delivered-To: maeder-cygml AT maeder DOT org Received: (qmail 71304 invoked for bounce); 24 Oct 2008 21:44:33 -0000 Date: 24 Oct 2008 21:44:33 -0000 From: MAILER-DAEMON AT bouncehost To: maeder-cygml AT maeder DOT org Subject: failure notice Status: RO X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 4208 Hi. This is the qmail-send program. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>: Connected to 209.132.176.174 but connection died. Possible duplicate! (#4.4.2) I'm not going to try again; this message has been in the queue too long. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
