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Article #608Re: Subject: Loop control mechanisms in mailing lists
From: Peter Karp
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1986 19:20
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1986 19:20
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I believe that Unix Sendmail counts "Received:" lines in message headers, assuming that it has detected a mail loop if this number gets past some threshold. Simple but effective... Peter -------
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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!PKARP@SRI-IU.ARPA From: PKARP@SRI-IU.ARPA (Peter Karp) Newsgroups: net.mail.headers Subject: Re: Subject: Loop control mechanisms in mailing lists Message-ID: <1004@brl-smoke.ARPA> Date: Mon, 17-Feb-86 14:20:21 EST Article-I.D.: brl-smok.1004 Posted: Mon Feb 17 14:20:21 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 19-Feb-86 20:27:11 EST Sender: news@brl-smoke.ARPA Lines: 6