Re: Echo

["Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten () rohrbach de>]

Brad Knowles(brad.knowles () skynet be)@2002.08.16 23:46:51 +0000:
> At 9:43 PM +0200 2002/08/16, Karsten W. Rohrbach wrote:
>
> >  - scoreboard: one mail from one source addres in one minute time window
>
>       Do you just queue messages from source addresses, so that you 
> don't generate more than one echo in a minute, or do you throw away 
> every message from that source address which was generated less than 
> one minute ago?

please, see the other answer in this thread.

>       Also, how do you handle echoes of echoes?  For example, if I 
> forged e-mail as being from echo () psi net and addressed that to 
> echo () rohrbach de (or whatever), would this generate an endless loop?

X-Loop:

>       What if I put "echo () psi net,echo () psi net" as the return address? 
> Would you send back two copies?

No.

>       Just curious.  Thanks!

regards,
/k
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