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Re: Frank Carmickle and Marco Paganini must die



On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 12:40:19 -0500, Branden Robinson
<branden@debian.org> wrote:
>This is not a subtle point.  The concept of positive feedback in control
>systems has been known for generations.  IP has the "hop count" and MTAs
>perform loop detection (A .forwards to B, B .forwards back to A).

Loop detection implemented in MTAs is, however, a crude hack. Simply
counting the Received:-Headers is by no means reliable. A good scheme
for e-mail loop detection would work significantly different.

Greetings
Marc

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