[Mailman-Users] looping

[Nigel Metheringham]

yan at cardinalengineering.com said:
> For now I've set the "reply to" to sender, which should keep that
> noise to a minimum, but I'd like to go back to replying to the list.
> Is there any way to prevent this? 

In short, no.  You cannot defend easily against gratuitously broken 
software.  I would personally see if there was an identifying mark in 
the headers for the mailer that guy was using and use that as a 
selector to catch incoming mail to the list.  I'd also probably just 
block the whole originating domain of that guy in my MTA, but I have a 
nasty inclination.

Maybe we should attempt to detect an unusual rate of posting from an 
address and start holding mail from them - this is fraught with 
problems and is bound to not work when it matters.  Can anyone suggest 
an algorithm that might have a chance of detecting stuff - there is 
some rate detection in the bounce handlers I believe.

	Nigel.
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