Re: looping messages

[lou@jump.net]

	To quote Chief Engineer Montogomery Scott: "Once is bad luck,
twice is coincidence, but three times is enemy action."

	After blocking the offending site at the main server (we return
a 553 error code which is sendmail-ish for "Go away and don't come back")
there was approximately 12 hours of peace and then the echoed messages
returned but relayed through a secondary MX host.

Received: from fararayaneh.com by ns2.jump.net ([194.225.42.70]) 

	Unless the mailer at the originating site is horribly broken this
can't be happening accidentally.  (You fall back to secondary MX iff the 
primary doesn't respond, not if it tells you to get lost.)  I've blocked 
them at ns2 also, and if they circumvent this as well I'll have the network 
guys block them at the border router.

	BTW, I'm not a list administrator.  I'm just a list member who
happens to work for the ISP the list is hosted on, and I don't like a full
mailbox any more than the rest of you :-)


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