We appear...

We appear to have an nntp/mail loop in progress. I believe the problem
is at mnemosyne.cs.du.edu -- its posting cypherpunks back to the
mailing list (ugh!).

.pm

.pm writes:
> We appear to have an nntp/mail loop in progress. I believe the problem
> is at mnemosyne.cs.du.edu -- its posting cypherpunks back to the
> mailing list (ugh!).

Not exclusively, though -- I've been seeing sporadic stuff from mnemosyne for
a week or more. I wrote to postmaster@cs.du.edu and it bounced from someone's
personal mailbox (!)

Duplicates of some of Bob Hayden's articles have been appearing via NNTP
from krypton.mankato.msu.edu lately, too.

On Tue, 18 Jul 1995, L. McCarthy wrote:

> Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 20:06:40 -0400 (EDT)
> From: L. McCarthy <lmccarth@thor.cs.umass.edu>
> To: Cypherpunks Mailing List <cypherpunks@toad.com>
> Cc: cypherpunks-owner@toad.com
> Subject: Re: We appear...
> 
> .pm writes:
> > We appear to have an nntp/mail loop in progress. I believe the problem
> > is at mnemosyne.cs.du.edu -- its posting cypherpunks back to the
> > mailing list (ugh!).
> 
> Not exclusively, though -- I've been seeing sporadic stuff from mnemosyne for
> a week or more. I wrote to postmaster@cs.du.edu and it bounced from someone's
> personal mailbox (!)

folks,  the problem is this:  the cypherpunks mailing list is read as a 
newsgroup on nyx.cs.du.edu.  it seems they must have messed up their 
config recently otherwise we would have been seeing this for more than a 
year.  anyway, i wrote the sysadmin at nyx.cs.du.edu (aburt@nyx...) so 
hopefully this will be taken care of soon.

-pat


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On Tue, 18 Jul 1995, L. McCarthy wrote:

> Duplicates of some of Bob Hayden's articles have been appearing via NNTP
> from krypton.mankato.msu.edu lately, too.

I've been posting those duplicate articles to alt.security.pgp at the same
time (using pine as a mailer/news poster), so I'm assuming that somebody's
news server is getting the message and passing it to the mail address. 


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____        Robert A. Hayden      <=> Cthulhu Matata
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   \/   Finger for PGP Public Key <=> http://att2.cs.mankato.msus.edu/~hayden

On Tue, 18 Jul 95, perry@imsi.com (Perry E. Metzger) wrote:
> We appear to have an nntp/mail loop in progress. I believe the problem
> is at mnemosyne.cs.du.edu -- its posting cypherpunks back to the
> mailing list (ugh!).

Yes, and I suppose everyone got the message I stupidly sent to the
list rather than to majordomo trying to figure this out...sorry.

This list is supposed to be gated to a Nyx newsgroup via
cypherpunks@cs.du.edu, as I recall, but is also being sent to
cypherpunks@nyx.cs.du.edu, and to a couple of individual users:

apoulter@nyx.cs.du.edu (Alan  Poulter)
cypherpunks@nyx.cs.du.edu
jannis@nyx10.cs.du.edu
cypherpunks@cs.du.edu

I'm not sure if this is related to the crash; I was getting a few
double postings from mnemosyne before the crash, but they seem to
have increased.  I've Cc:'d the sysadmin at DU, but removing the
cypherpunks@nyx.cs.du.edu subscription might be in order.  BTW,
mnemosyne is the news server at DU...

If it keeps up, I have no doubt someone will forge an unsubscribe
request...:-)  Anyway, maybe Hugh and/or Andrew can solve this in
a less hackish manner...


Alan Westrope                  <awestrop@nyx10.cs.du.edu>
__________/|-,                 <adwestro@ouray.cudenver.edu>
   (_)    \|-'                  2.6.2 public key: finger / servers
PGP 0xB8359639:  D6 89 74 03 77 C8 2D 43   7C CA 6D 57 29 25 69 23

| We appear to have an nntp/mail loop in progress. I believe the problem
| is at mnemosyne.cs.du.edu -- its posting cypherpunks back to the
| mailing list (ugh!).

This very simple procmailrc rule means that you never notice such
ugliness. 

:0 Wh: msgid.lock
| formail -D 65536 .msgid.cache


procmail:
ftp://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/packages/procmail/procmail.tar.gz


Adam