From: Bert Kellerman (bertke@xxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Fri Aug 25 2000 - 23:02:20 GMT-3
I've seen this happen and it resulted in 300k emails(they were all a
very small size) to one account. From the little I researched it the
problem seemed to be exaggerated by the kickbacks coming from a domain
that uses several different hostnames for their smtp servers. From what
I remember, the RFC states that SMTP daemon will only ignore a
kickback(won't reply) from a hostname that the original message was sent
to. When we got nowhere with the other server's admin, the problem was
solved by deleting the user. :)
Bert
"Price, Jamie" wrote:
> "quickley turn on your out of office daemon and see how fast the loop
> grows"Dont laugh - I've seen that happen - a guy I once worked with
> was on a list where he had the ability to set auto-reply to his
> account - then set auto reply to his account at work at 5pm and walked
> out the door to go on vacation. The first message he got at his work
> account from the list generated an auto-reply, problem was the auto
> reply set the mailing list itself in the "To" box, not the user that
> sent it. In turn the mailing list recieved an auto-reply - obviously
> his account was on the list - can you spell LOOP.It was a government
> mailing list too - I went to a client site (government) at 7:30am on
> Monday and I heard a yell come from a cube just over from me - "Who
> the &$#@ is this xxxxxxx dickhead? I've got 7 and a 1/2 thousand
> auto-replies in my inbox from him". For reasons I know not of, his
> account stayed active at work until 3pm that afternoon - by which time
> the entire State of xxxxxxx (try to retain some privacy) was almost
> brought to a standstill.Funny as hell but somewhat harrowing too for
> those concerned.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dwyer@tatrc.org [mailto:dwyer@tatrc.org]
> Sent: Friday, August 25, 2000 5:04 PM
> To: Stylen; ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: Re: turn off Out of Office replies
>
> hehe
> we should all reply to them when we get them and the person
> will have several hundred more emails when they get back.
> "Oh I didn't know you were out of the office, thanks for
> letting me know. I will keep that in mind next time I post
> to Groupstudy, yada yada yada...."
> Or group them all into a global address, reply to them all
> at once, then quickley turn on your out of office daemon and
> see how fast the loop grows.
> LArry
>
>
> Stylen wrote:
>
> > As a courtesy, can you please turn off out of office
> > replies for messages sent through this mailing list,
> > everytime i post a message, i get between 6 and 10 out of
> > office messages from people. Richard Foltz, CCNP, CCDP,
> > MCSE+I, Network+, A+
> > Technical Solutions Consultant
> > Sprint ENS12-4/5 @ Halifax
>
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