Comment by jes

A few decades ago, I was rewriting the standard sendmail.cf that we used in the company where I worked as a sysad. I think we had about one hundred or so Sun 3/60s and 3/80s that were using it.

Well, in one of my test emails, I triggered an email loop. Suddenly, all the clients were furiously mailing the mail host and queuing up additional copies as fast as they could.

To make matters worse, my test mail was unprofessional in terms of the language I used.

Fortunately, it was a Sunday afternoon when it happened, and the mail stayed local. But it was scary and a real pain in the neck to halt and clean up.

In a future post, I’ll share how a fellow sysad and I shorted out the RG-8 coax backbone while trying to add a vampire tap. That was another kind of all night deal.

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