Dearnaley Auto Reply Cannon?

Micah A. Williams (micah@fsu.fsufay.edu)
Fri, 15 Dec 95 14:32:05 EST


I'm sure many of you have figured this out already but
I think maybe Mr. Dearlarney is running some kind of
automated reply program from his account.

Any mail that is sent to his inbox gets an auto
reply with the body of the mail being the subject
followed by ... "I'm gone 'til Jan 5, etc..".

The recursion is occuring because he is a member of
the very list he is sending auto-replys to. So not only is
he receiving and auto-replying to his own replys over and over
again, he is also starting new recursion threads
with any new message sent to the list.

(Actually, this is kinda cool..I like recursion
problems..but I'm sure the list maintainer and everybody else
dislikes a mailbox full of Re:Re:Re: messages) ..

The solution: (As Bonnie Scott pointed out to me)
Temporarily remove Roger Dearlaney from the list.

Sorry If I wasted bandwidth with this, but I just
got a sudden realization of how this was all unfolding.

-Micah

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