List flooding (was: importSQL script for Access)

[Fred Lindberg]

The original message was from danny, but all the echo derive from a
ping-pong set up by the sender anonymous@stripped. The
subscription address responsible is
ml.mysql.users@stripped, which appears to be a local
newsgroup gateway.

Thus, danny@stripped is NOT to blame and sent only one copy of
the message.

Relevant headers:

Return-Path: <anonymous@stripped>
Received: (qmail 27382 invoked from network); 22 Dec 1999 19:59:01
-0000
Received: from sie-2-165.urbanet.ch (HELO cubitus.ctrlaltdel.ch)
(qmailr@stripped
.215.165)
  by www2.analytikerna.se with SMTP; 22 Dec 1999 19:59:01 -0000
Received: (qmail 793 invoked by uid 1009); 22 Dec 1999 17:58:12 -0000
To: mysql@stripped
Path: gateway
Newsgroups: ml.mysql.users
Organization: Ctrl Alt Del, le site qui d<E9>marre
Lines: 158
Sender: mail2news@stripped

I've added a filter for the sender of the echos and removed the
subscriber from the list. FWIW - the list is set up to throttle mail to
30 msg/h in case something like this happens with mail deferral. If it
happens more often, we can automatically switch the list to moderated
and use a finer granularity (e.g. 15 msg/30 min), but the risk is
always to encroach upon normal list use.

I expect to see an apology shortly.


-Sincerely, Fred

(Frederik Lindberg, Infectious Diseases, WashU, St. Louis, MO, USA)