[DigiCam] Re: Fw: [DigiCam] Re: infinite loop

Mary Martin martinbojan at cox.net
Mon Aug 2 15:59:56 PDT 2004


Jill,

I sure hope the "coast is clear again!"
What a shocker!!!
Sorry you had it as well.   What a super mess!!!

Mary

> Mary,
>
> What was going  was a loop caused by a message going out from the list
> (someone raised a question or made a comment as usual) to a subscriber who
> had an automatic response going (saying his mailbox was no longer in use,
> please send mail elsewhere) which response, of course, was seen by the
list
> as a further participation in the discussion and so was sent back to
> everyone on the list including this guy whose auto response responded with
> "my mailbox is no longer in use," etc etc etc etc... to the count of 796
> messages, at least!
>
> It has stopped.
>
> I sent the fellow an email suggesting he shut off his auto response and
> unsubscribe that defunct address. Five minutes later, it stopped. But, I
> didn't hear back from him, so maybe the list mom pulled the plug on him.
>
> Seems like the coast is clear again.  Whew!
>
> Jill




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