Sinister: Multiple mails (again) and fascism

[Rod Begbie]

On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Honey wrote:

> OK - veterans of the list (the ones who can remember the broccoli
> debate, say) will also remember this happening before.  For some
> reason I can't fathom, a remote mailer goes bad and repeatedly throws
> back mails from the list TO the list, which bounce back to the remote
> mailer ad infinitum.  Good plan.  The tell-tale sign is multiple
> footers.  Personal mail to/from the site wasn't affected last time.

Can't the mailing software add a header line such as "X-List: sinister" to
all messages sent out from the list, and reject any incoming mail with
that header (ie. bounced messages)?

Rod.

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