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Looping E-mails Beat The Net Down

Staili writes "Singapore-based women's magazine caused problems when it forwarded its mails to a large list of recipients, mainly mailing lists. In addition to security@suse.com, some help and subscribe lists were included; the type of addresses that tend to send out an automatic reply confirming receipt. And the loop was ready." I'm sure anyone who's messed with mail enough has accidentally created a loop or two in their day, but this is really slimey.

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  1. FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Perhaps?

  2. Party Hearty, D00D! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    AMENDMENT XVIII

    Passed by Congress December 18, 1917. Ratified January 16, 1919. Repealed by amendment 21.

    Section 1.
    After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.

    Section 2.
    The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

    Section 3.
    This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.

  3. Mattox Beckman was a black man by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Mattox Beckman was a black man

  4. Re: Mama I'm Coming Home by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    You think you know what Ozzy's thinking.
    You think you know what Ozzy's drinking.
    You think you know, but you do not know-oo-oh.
    This is the Osbourne Family Show.

  5. But did you consider that.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    *BSD is feeling not so healthy.

    Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *BSD community when recently High Times confirmed that *BSD accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest High Times survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last in the recent High Times comprehensive networking test.

    You needn't be Wavy Gravy to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 3% of its core developers.

    Recently, Slashdot [goatse.cx] confirmed that WindRiver kicked FreeBSD out on its ass for a carton of Winstons and a 12-pack of Moosehead. This only serves to confirm the fact that FreeBSD is unwanted, doomed to be passed around like an old copy of redhat 7.2.

    Fact:

    Slashdot is for sickos.
    LInux is for gay homosexuals.

  6. Re:Asia Problem by Turbyne · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Well, I don't see many phones in the US NEED color displays, or an actual productive commercial use for a 640x480 digital camera on a cellphone as opposed to a separate megapixel unit. (On a technicality note, if you're referring to the Samsung SCH-V200, Samsung is a Korean company, not a Japanese one.) Although I agree that they have some cool toys in Japan, that is exactly what they are: toys. Also, in response to the comment

    As the USA and UK are generally heralded as technological equals to Japan, this is pretty lame.

    Here's a quick list technology the US developed:

    1. F-15 Eagle, [I belive] the first fighter jet with a thrust to weight ratio greater than 1
    2. F-16 Falcon/Viper, exported globally from Israel to Japan
    3. F-117 Nighthawk & F-22 Raptor (Both with stealth, the second with Supercruise)
    4. The Dodge Viper GTS, Chevorlet Corvette C5R, & Ford GT40
    5. Computer processor (notable: ZiLog Z80, Mot 68K, Intel 80486)
    6. PCs
    7. Palm Pilot/PocketPC/Apple Newton
    8. Onstar, DSS, DirectTV,
    9. The orignal idea of the Cellphone
    10. etc.

    I'm not trying to say that the US is technologically better than Japan. I'm trying to show that different countries have different strengths in different areas of technology.

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  7. Re:Asia Problem by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    No, the F-15 does not have a higher thrust to weight ratio. The F-18 line does, however.