[Mailman-Users] Wish: Spam by vacation notifications in Mailman

[Chuq Von Rospach]

On Saturday, November 16, 2002, at 07:20  AM, Mike Burton wrote:

>> If you don't set your reply-to to the list, you won't set up your 
>> lists to ask for these wonderful little mailbombs.
>
> If this were the case, wouldn't the originator of the message receive 
> these instead?  Might that not cause some confusion

Yes, and yes. But it sure is better than having it posted to a list and 
having everyone on the list get it instead. a lesser evil thing. Or 
having that vacation message start a loop with itself and having 
everyone on the list get 500 copies before they can track down someone 
to kill it.



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