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Re: [LUG] Worse than "Recursion occurred"

 

Simon Waters wrote:
Thought I'd send postmaster email to my google account whilst I migrated
email server settings. Thinking it would make it easy to read any error
messages.

I think we've all done things we think are a good idea, watch them go wahoonie shaped - and then think 'whoops!'

Mine was on IRC back before mIRC came with features scripted as standard. I created two simple [but as it transpired deadly in concert] scripts; one to boot out clones, and one to auto rejoin a channel. This was on dial-up. I went to a channel on my own to test them. Then the lag set in.

Connection dropped. I reconnected and rejoined the channel. My old login was still hanging there - you just KNOW where this is going....

The clone script saw two of us.  Kicked me.

The auto-rejoin script rejoined.

The clone script saw two of us.  Kicked me.

Rinse and repeat.

30 seconds later mIRC locked up solid.

Julian

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