[23432] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BOZO Alert...Re: They're at it again...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bryan A. Ignatow)
Thu Mar 18 09:39:14 1999
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 23:39:50 -0600
To: jlewis@lewis.org, Joe Shaw <jshaw@insync.net>,
ignatow@paranet.com
From: "Bryan A. Ignatow" <ignatow@sprintparanet.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu, ignatow@sprintparanet.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9903172008520.31100-100000@redhat1.mmaero.co
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Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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,
---
Bryan A. Ignatow Sr. Technical Analyst
ignatow@sprintparanet.com Sprint Paranet
(Intranet Only) http://general.srv.paranet.com/~baignato
