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hamble
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So I just discovered a very pointless way to waste time and bandwidth, completely by accident.
1. Simply set up two separate email addresses, say
hamble@thing1.com
newhamble@thing2.com
2. Give them both auto-reply rules, like an out-of-office message.
3. Sit back and watch the emails bounce back and forth forever!
Luckily I noticed what I had done within about 10 minutes, by which time I had 12 emails, all quoting from each other and thus getting larger each time! Theoretically speaking, I suppose this could go on forever... do one of you techy geeks (I'm looking at you, Demon) know how long would it take to cause problems?
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Nhumrod
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i think emails on a correctly configured server should have a maximum bounce count but i cant remember. I havent done exchange stuff professionally for 6 months 
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Mojo Jojo
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and it wouldn't go on forever, as you don't have an infinite amount of memory.
They would get rejected due to size after a while, if there wasn't some kind of spam limit.
Edited by Mojo Jojo on 28 November 2006 at 4:18pm
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Cock with a soc
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theres a rule in exchange i think it can only do it 5 times or summit
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TheGouldFish
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Most exchange servers I've used only bounce emails the once.
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hamble
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Well obviously I didn't mean FOREVER Mojo... but for a long time. Both email addresses are with Network Solutions out of the US, but they were still going when I stopped it.
Perhaps I should turn it back on as an experiment...
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Nhumrod
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Just goes to show how badly your email servers are administered 
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