Re: BOZO Alert...Re: They're at it again...

["Bryan A. Ignatow" <ignatow () sprintparanet com>]

At 20:11 3/17/99 -0500, jlewis () lewis org wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Joe Shaw wrote:
>
> > Wow.  What's with the lag in some of the messages just now being delivered
> > from the list?  This on is 5 days old.
>
> Take a closer look at the headers.  Some BOZO is bouncing mail back into
> several mailing lists.  Probably a mail<->news gateway gone bad.  I'm
> seeing this on nanog, inet-access (I think), and definitely the bb (big
> brother) lists.  The winner appears to be ignatow () paranet com.
>
> I've added this to my .procmailrc
>
> :0:
> * ^Received:.*rns-serv\.rsc\.raytheon\.com
> dupes

Everyone is allowed one mistake.

A very simple mistake in a one time bulk mail move caused the mail to be
sent back out.  The process was killed when the mistake was discovered, but
not before several hundred mail messaged escaped.

I apologize for any inconvenience,


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Bryan A. Ignatow                           Sr. Technical Analyst
ignatow () sprintparanet com                  Sprint Paranet
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