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Article #607Re: Subject: Loop control mechanisms in mailing lists
From: gillies.osbunorth
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1986 19:18
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1986 19:18
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another method of loop control used by some of our mail gateways: (5) Each host physically appends a [post]mark to the message that identifies it as "A message already acted on here". Refuse to process [kill] the message if it shows up later at the same host with one of your [post]marks still in tact. This is a good way for a gateway to prevent looping. However, it won't work if you're sending mail through a dumb gateway that strips off this information to accomplish format conversion. Don Gillies
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!brl-smoke!smoke!gillies.osbunorth@xerox.ARPA From: gillies.osbunorth@xerox.ARPA Newsgroups: net.mail.headers Subject: Re: Subject: Loop control mechanisms in mailing lists Message-ID: <1003@brl-smoke.ARPA> Date: Mon, 17-Feb-86 14:18:56 EST Article-I.D.: brl-smok.1003 Posted: Mon Feb 17 14:18:56 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 19-Feb-86 20:27:00 EST Sender: news@brl-smoke.ARPA Lines: 13