Xref: utzoo alt.config:106 news.config:585 news.admin:2112 Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mailrus!rutgers!labrea!decwrl!amdcad!pyramid!csg From: csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst) Newsgroups: alt.config,news.config,news.admin Subject: Braindamaged test messages clogging the net Message-ID: <22716@pyramid.pyramid.com> Date: 10 May 88 20:31:26 GMT References: <255@comdesign.UUCP> <1218@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> Reply-To: csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst) Organization: Pyramid Technology Corp., Mountain View, CA Lines: 20 A 2300-line message was posted to misc.test (and cross posted to talk.bizarre) by 22116@pyr1.acs.udel.EDU that refers to itself as the "misc.test digest." It contains the complete text of all the misc.test messages posted within the past month or so, a total of 107 articles. This awesomely stupid menuever was topped by pst@comdesign.UUCP reposting the same message to alt.test. The posting of two 68 Kbyte messages to test groups is trivial compared to the effect of all the echo reflectors out there. Every one is forwarding the damn postings back to the sender. Worse, at least one standard reflector script, Erik Fair's, echos mail to *EVERY* "Path:" line in the test article. Since the article contains 109 Path lines, we mailed the 68K posting to all 109 of them! We have broken the UUCP link to comdesign, and are trashing every copy of the test message that we can find. Unfortunately, nearly all of them already went out during the night, and we apologize to all of you who found this monster in your inbox this morning. Other sites, especially those running echo reflec- tors, should survey their own spool partitions and squash as many of these as they can.