----- Original Message -----
From: "Kurt W Hirchert" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 1:18 PM
Subject: Re: list move
> At 05:34 PM 11/30/00 +0000, Herbert Fruchtl wrote:
> >I would side with the earlier posters in this thread. I subscribe to this
> >list not only to hear about others' problems, but also their solutions
> >(and other opinions). I can live with a few "I'm on holiday" messages.
>
> How about a few hundred or a few thousand or more? This can easily happen
> in certain common misconfigurations of vacation. Typical scenario, a list
> message is handled by vacation, which replies to the list, which is
> redistributed back to vacation. In a correct configuration of vacation,
it
> recognizes that it has recently already sent an automatic reply to
> comp-fortran-90 and that's the end of it, but there are a number of
> relatively easy ways for that part to be "broken" so vacation keeps
sending
> automatic replies and the whole process goes into an infinite loop that
> isn't broken until someone manually intervenes or one or the other of the
> systems breaks down under the load. I personally have encountered
> "vacation wars" running into the tens of thousands of automatic messages.
>
> --
> Kurt W Hirchert [log in to unmask]
> UIUC Department of Atmospheric Sciences +1-217-265-0327
>
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