Subj : FidoNet Gate / mailinglist (error??)
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From : "Jos Huijnen"
Date : Sat Jan 06 2001 08:06 am

> Is something still miss-configured ???

> I am getting lots of these

> JS> Hello Jos!

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Not at the gating system. Everything is working as it should be. I've tested
some (heavy) things in a test area mailinglist and it is all working
normally.

The messages which are sent over and over again (which I have tracked this
morning and killed, so at least those messages are out of the loop) are only
infecting the mailing-list site (they are filtered as dupes on the fidonet
echo).

The message loop just started at about 6:15 (CET). At time I was sleeping
and there was nothing changed in the configs of the gate. Taking a look at
the messages in the "loop" there are several X-....... header lines which
are copied over and over again.

The real interesting thing is that the original messages (the first one that
got into the loop) from Jef Schrunck was gated from the Fidonet echo. This
one did NOT have a (e-mail) header "User-Agent: ......". The second one
(which was sent back to the mailinglist) did have a header line "User-Agent:
VSoup v1.2.9.48Beta [OS/2]". This one is added by someone else on the
mailinglist and the message is sent back to the mailinglist over and over
again. All following "dupes" also get an extra header "X-Posting-Agent:
VSoup v1.2.9.48Beta [OS/2]". This one is added even more than once
(everytime the loop-message is sent back again, this line is added once
more).

So, at this moment I'm afraid this message will also get into a loop (I
don't know when exactly)... As soon as I see it, I'll try to track those
loop messages and kill them so at least not all messages are staying in that
loop for ever. The one "creating" the loop is somebody on the list using
VSoup v1.2.9.48Beta for OS/2, since the first loop message gets an extra
header of that posting agent and then over and over again the
X-posting-agent header. I don't use that software at my site (which also
explains why I couldn't reproduce the problem on the testlist, since the one
creating the loop isn't connected to the testlist.





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