Re: Problem telnetting to new account

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From: Linolil
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 00:07

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pwinter@best.com (Patty Winter) wrote in message news:<9ugpg4$1mqs$1@nntp1.ba.best.com>...

> I finally had time to call support, and it turns out that
> some user who's on the same server as I am had accidentally 
> set an autoresponder in a loop over the weekend. The tech
> support guy I talked to said he'd heard there might have
> been an accumulation of as many as hundreds of thousands
> of messages. Anyway, they're still cleaning things up and
> had to reboot some services on that server. Evidently telnet
> isn't back up yet, but should be in the next hour or two.
> 
> Bet they were thrilled when they got to work and discovered
> that this morning. :-)

Unlike the 'vacation' program, the autoresponder they have does not
have anyway to limit the number of responses it sends.  The first time
I turned it on I got a spam message that bounced replies back to it,
which it replied to, etc.

They are considering that "feature" for future development.  But as I
am looking for an alternative account, I won't see it.

Linolil

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Subject: Re: Problem telnetting to new account
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