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|    Vincent Coen to Ward Dossche    |
|    Fix your system    |
|    02 May 22 18:02:04    |
      REPLY: 2:292/854 133b0b03       MSGID: 2:250/1@fidonet 6270112d       CHRS: UTF-8 2       TZUTC: 0100       TID: MBSE-FIDO 1.0.8 (Linux-x86_64)       Hello Ward!              Monday May 02 2022 14:54, you wrote to Vince Coen:               > Vince,               > You are dumping here hundreds of Ping/Trace-mesages for John Dovey.               > The size of the log-file documenting just your nodenumber, by mid day,        > was larger than a log file for a full day of everything else combined.               > Please fix this.               > If by evening it isn't fixed, you will be passworded-out at this        > system.               > Take care,              Responded to in netmail.              The sender sent to 2:250/21 that does not exist in the nodelists a ping       request.              My system should have rejected it for the same reason and kept sending routed       (via 2:0/0) back to him (The message block not not report a bounced msg in any       way, so the message kept going in a loop for many hours.       It should have been stopped by my system and for that matter Ward's both for       the same reason non existing address but did not, so what ever Ward uses as a       mailer has a bug but so does mbse and for that matter the original poster,       John!                     I have, at least for now, removed all other AKA's on my primary system other       than 2:250/1 but I am not sure that is the correct solution and might even       create more issues.              The 2:25/21 system is not affected by this, in the sense it only uses the one       aka (2:25/21).              I just tried to test this using my address with Golded but there is not a       function to send a ping request in it so have no idea how to do this.              Vincent              --- Mageia Linux v8 X64/Mbse v1.0.8/GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20180707        * Origin: The Elist Maintainer (2:250/1)       SEEN-BY: 1/120 123 15/0 18/0 200 90/1 105/81 106/201 116/116 120/340       SEEN-BY: 123/0 25 115 131 180 200 755 129/305 330 331 134/101 135/300       SEEN-BY: 138/146 153/757 7715 218/700 222/2 226/30 227/114 229/110       SEEN-BY: 229/111 206 317 400 424 426 428 470 664 700 240/1120 250/1       SEEN-BY: 250/3 4 5 6 7 8 11 12 261/38 1466 266/512 275/100 1000 282/1038       SEEN-BY: 292/854 299/6 300/4 301/1 317/3 320/219 322/757 342/11 200       SEEN-BY: 396/45 460/58 633/280 712/848 1321 3634/0 12 15 24 27 50       SEEN-BY: 3634/119 5020/1042       PATH: 250/1 3634/12 153/7715 229/426           |
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