On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 01:54:20PM +0100, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > > > In any case, mailman does have options to detect infinite loops like > > this but even the current production releases miss a few. In the beta > > releases, the detection is supposed to be better and more cases will be > > caught. > > Could you maybe explain how this would be implemented? A mailing list is > based on the principle that everybody can reply to any message, so every reply > is a reply to a message that has "been there". Loop control is usually based > on the principle that you don't reply to a reply to a message you sent by > setting and checking a flag, but I don't see how that could be implemented > here.
I honestly don't know how it works and I'm not running the beta. One method I've seen some lists use (and I can't remember if they were Mailman or not) is to set a maximum limit on the number of posts from a given e-mail address per minute. That would have significantly slowed the flood we saw. If you want to do more research, go visit http://www.list.org - this is where Mailman hangs out. Cheers, .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
