Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Dec 1998 13:23:04 +0100 (CET) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [LIST] Dupe wars? |
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On Sun, 6 Dec 1998, Aaron Tiensivu wrote:
> Is anyone getting massive dup messages from the list this weekend? > Is there some funky misconfiguration sending msgs back to vger? > > I had about 100 msgs this morning from Dec 4, and 5 that were already here. > It seems to be continuing too. > > I'm on the digest, so I don't know if it affects the non-digest people. > Procmail splits it up for me nicely. :)
Some moron in singapore (or some other country in the far east) had his VACATION program bounce back the digests to the kernel.
I mailed him about it and set up a procmail rule to bounce the stuff back to him (counting on it that his mail server was smaller than the one at my university :). This made him shut up pretty quickly :)
From now on I will add the following rules to my .procmailrc on my university's machine (so I don't have to download the digests):
* ^Subject.*kernel-digest * ^Sender.*owner-linux-kernel * > 20000 /dev/null
(that is, until I find out how to do proper bouncing on our rather restricted procmail system)
regards,
Rik -- the flu hits, the flu hits, the flu hits -- MORE +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Linux memory management tour guide. H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl | | Scouting Vries cubscout leader. http://www.phys.uu.nl/~riel/ | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+
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