Re: [Licq-main] WHOLOTTALOVE

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On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Matthias Bauer wrote:

> >> Again, I'm sorry this happened, it's a problem with the other sides
> >> mailbox and mail server.  It's fixed now (I unsubscribed the bastard),
> >> but a few more of the messages will trickle through for a bit.
> > Good onya Graham .. ignore the other arogant f..ker
> > <grin> ... unsubscribe him too
> 
> You don't seem to have any understanding of list servers, and you also don't
> seem to know the need for sleep, do you?

What's that got to do with anything?

The situation, as I see it, goes something like this;

The person in question didn't check his e-mail for a while, and his
mailbox filled up. The mail server on his end would use the reply-to
address to send error messages, with no checking to determine that it had
sent several dozen (hundred?) error messages to the same address within a
span of a few hours. It also didn't check to see that it was responding to
its own messages, thus creating an infinite loop that would just keep
getting bigger and bigger until somebodys server choked on the
load. Graham, being the busy fellow that I'm sure he is (between
University, life commitments, and hunting down solutions to all of our
innane nitpicks of LICQ, etc..) unsubscribed the person in question from
the list as soon as he had the chance.

Now, hopefully this won't happen again, because hopefully we'll all have
the respect to unsubscribe from this often very busy list before we go
anywhere, or we all use mail servers that aren't incompetent enough to
cause such problems in the first place.

Now, in a hopeful conclusion to all of this, I say a great big
"Thank-You!" to Graham, and an even bigger "Fsck-you!" to James Linzel
(and/or his mail server), and let's get on with our lives and re-devote
this list to what it should be - LICQ! The best ICQ client this side of a
Windy GUI! (Scratch that - I've seen what they've done to ICQ2000 - I'd
rather use LICQ any day!)

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  E-Mail: bla...@so...         ICQ: 3484915
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