Re: Cross-posting to 26 lists?

Josh Berkus wrote:
> WWW,
>
> John Nash was just able to cross-post to 26 mailing lists at once.  I
> thought we had a filter in place to prevent posting to more than 2 lists
> at once?

I think the problem here was one of misunderstanding Majordomo.  I saw
his post in the moderation interface and thought a bit about it; I
thought I would let one copy get through and approved it; then
mass-rejected all remaining moderation requests (all spam).  I didn't
notice that Majordomo had published all the other copies; maybe what
happened (but with my understanding of how Mj2 works, I don't think this
is likely) was that the re-sender process saw the CCs in the mail header
and copied to all the other lists.

I don't care enough to spend much of my time researching this.  It's not
like we have this problem every week.

> Oh, and please ban him, of course.

I think this is an overreaction.  The guy has validly posted to other
lists previously, and apart from the mistake of copying all lists in
this one message, I don't see any sign of repeated misfeasance.  I don't
see that forcing the guy to create a second gmail account to post would
accomplish anything.

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