CR - Apology for mail loop...

[Cian Conor MacQuaid]

My thanks to both of you and to Pug.  I had just come back to my machine and
encountered the same problem of "not subscribed" when I tried to fix it.  I
appealed to Pug for more help, which has always been forthcoming, and
started peering into the headers to see if I could figure out where it had
gone originally when the resolution was posted.

I think we have had the case lesson in unsubbing.  Each message created an
autoreply to the list, which reached the party autoreplying, which created
an autoreply, which...

Thank you all for reacting quickly and bearing with us.

Cian
-----Original Message-----
From: Mitman, Rikki <Rikki.Mitman at compaq.com>
To: 'coastal at Ansteorra.ORG' <coastal at Ansteorra.ORG>
Date: Tuesday, August 10, 1999 4:12 PM
Subject: RE: CR - Apology for mail loop...


>No, actually, he left his job last week. (I know 'cause he's my husband.) I
>just got off the phone with Baron Michael Silverhands, who did some
>sleuthing and discovered that Manfred (Joe Wolf) had subscribed under one
>email address (at work), which the company subsequently changed -- HOWEVER,
>their server was still forwarding mail addressed with the old address. So
>when Manfred/Joe left, he unsubbed under his current/newer work email
>address, but the "old" one was what was on the list -- hence the endless
>loop of auto-replies.
>
>I hope this makes sense -- in any event, his excellency figured out how to
>unsub the address and there should be no more problem.
>
>Awfully sorry.
>
>Teleri ferch Pawl
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Pug Bainter [SMTP:pug at pug.net]
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 1999 4:05 PM
>> To: coastal at Ansteorra.ORG
>> Subject: CR - Apology for mail loop...
>>
>> Good Morning,
>>
>>   Unfortunately it looks like someone is on vacation and their system
>>   was feeding it back into the mailing list. I have setup a filter to
>>   block it and send it to the list administrator. This means the list
>>   admin will hate me, but it means that they will only get one message
>>   to delete instead of it growing out of control.
>>
>> Ciao,
>>
>> --
>> Phelim "Pug" Gervase   | "I want to be called. COTTONTIPS. There is
>> something
>> Bryn Gwlad - Ansteorra |  graceful about that lady. A young woman
bursting
>> with
>> Dark Horde Moritu      |  vigor. She blinked at the sudden light. She
>> writes
>> pug at pug.net            |  beautiful poems. When ever shall we meet
again?"
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