HELP! hukilau spam attack... - General Tiki

S Swanky Tiki Socialite Hapa Haole Hideaway, Knoxville, TN Joined: Apr 03, 2002 Posts: 5398	S Swanky Posted posted on Mon, May 19, 2003 9:15 AM Okay, if anyone cares, here are the gory details of what happened. Perhaps someone will not make this mistake themselves. The list was set up for [email protected]. I got all the email addresses together from everyone and sent that whole file to the subscribe program. The email for news must have been in there too. So, it made a circular loop. If you sent an email to news, it got sent out to news again because news was a member of the list. And on and on and on. It sent out messages over and over forever.

Okay, if anyone cares, here are the gory details of what happened. Perhaps someone will not make this mistake themselves.

The list was set up for [email protected]. I got all the email addresses together from everyone and sent that whole file to the subscribe program. The email for news must have been in there too. So, it made a circular loop.

If you sent an email to news, it got sent out to news again because news was a member of the list. And on and on and on. It sent out messages over and over forever.

Post #34832 by Swanky on Mon, May 19, 2003 9:15 AM