Avoid dup floods to the lists in the future

Cees De Groot cdegroot at gmail.com
Sat Nov 19 17:25:34 UTC 2005


Well, if it is from Russ, I'd be inclined to trust it. So if you don't
find anything obviously wrong, I'd say go ahead...

On 11/18/05, Ken Causey <ken at kencausey.com> wrote:
> I'm looking into what could be done to avoid duplicate message floods
> like the one today in the future, or at least lessen the impact.  On the
> Qmail website I found a script for roughly this purpose at
>
> http://www.qmail.org/eliminate-dups
>
> from Russ Nelson.  As luck has it I happen to know Russ so I spoke with
> him about this for a few minutes and he thought that it would be fine to
> use this on the listserver.
>
> However I'm not going to jump into this too quickly because a faulty
> cure is likely to be worse than the disease.  So I'm carefully
> evaluating this script and I would appreciate it if you could look over
> it and give your opinionl.
>
> The idea is that this would just be stuck in above the existing line in
> ~list/.qmail-default and so work for all mailman lists.
>
> Ken
>
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