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[Adam Bernstein <address@concealed>]

Howdy Sympa folks.  We've increasingly had problems with infinite mail 
loops getting started between our server and another (the other server is 
often also a listserver, maybe even a Sympa server) via commands like 
"lists" and "help".  Although we have Sympa's loop detection turned on and 
set to a low threshhold (10 commands in 1 hour) and it does catch and stop 
some loops, it does not catch these.  I take it that's because of the line 
in sympa.pl that counts and blocks responses only if there is a "report", 
which must mean something other than "any response", since these commands 
are obviously generating responses but are not getting counted.

The conditional line in 5.3.3 is:

    if (&report::is_there_any_report_cmd()) {

We need to expand the loop prevention to cover all commands, so I'm 
wondering, can we just take that condition out?  Or else how to modify it?

Many thanks.

     ab