[OS X TeX] Re: Ticket 415, Automatic response creating havoc on OS X TeX list

[Andrzej Kozlowski]

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As it seems safe now, just out of curiosity: it seems to me that was a 
case of an "infinite loop". The autoresponder seems to have been 
autoresponding to its own autoresponses which were autorelayed to it by 
the list server. In this way it could have, in theory,  gone on for 
ever. Am I right?

Andrzej Kozlowski



On 25 Aug 2004, at 22:08, Bruno Voisin wrote:

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> Le 25 août 04, à 14:47, EDTHosting.com a écrit :
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>> Bruno,
>> It looks as if our client had misconfigured their autoresponder file 
>> for this account. I have corrected the issue and the messages should 
>> stop.
>>
>> EDTHosting.com Help Desk
>
> Many thanks for your very fast and efficient action. I had not 
> realized, at the time I posted my request, that you were access 
> provider for the account sending this autoresponder.
>
> Your action has brought relief to the OS X TeX list, a community of 
> several hundred members, each of which was reached by about 2120 of 
> these autoresponses today. The problem was that all happened at 
> nightime in the US, before the list maintainer, Prof. Gary Gray, had 
> the opportunity to unsubscribe the "offender".
>
> Many thanks from all of us list members,
>
> Bruno Voisin
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