From:	firewind <firewind AT metroid DOT dyn DOT ml DOT org>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: The listserv is mailbombing me!
Date:	19 Oct 1997 19:18:45 GMT
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Paul Derbyshire <ao950 AT freenet DOT carleton DOT ca> wrote:

> Over the last 48 hours my mailbox has been flooded with 200 K of this
> bounce message crap! Every one of them refers to (and totally quotes) a
> message I put in the DJGPP newsgroup.
> Evidently, the listserv is spasming again. 

The listserv is not spasming. The bounces are a result of a broken mail
server near someone subscribed to the list.

> Is there no way to make this stuff go (in only ONE copy) to the
> list admin 

Why would it go to the list admin? The mail server is returning it to the
sender-- you. I've gotten several of these myself.

> and not the people posting on the *newsgroup*?
> Heck I use the newsgroup because I can't cope with a mail volume the size
> of comp.os.msdos.djgpp.

Install procmail and dump messages from "Mailer-Daemon AT pandora DOT provider DOT com DOT br"
into the ole bit bucket. I'm sure there are ways to deal with this on other
OSes as well.

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