Re: blocking this guy´s email

[Pete Phillips]

I run numerous mailing-lists, so I'll comment.

There were two errors made here. The first was by Mampre. One 
should not use an auto-responder if one is subscribed to any 
mailing-lists. We've all just seen why, although judging by his snotty 
messages, Mampre doesn't seem to realize that he caused the 
transmission of tens-of-thousands of annoying messages and made 
a valuable resource essentially useless for several days. If one must 
use an auto-responder, there are several options in order of 
preference: 1) use the list of exclusion addresses within your mail-
server or -client's autoresponder, and exclude all mailing lists, so 
that it won't reply to things like vnc-list "at" realvnc.com; 2) turn off the 
list-mail while your auto-responder is active (see the welcome 
message you got from the list); 3) use a smart responder that won't 
reply more than once in 48 hours to the same address.

The second error was made by the list-administrator. Loop-
detection should be turned on in the server. If the server is not 
capable of loop-detection, there are plenty of free alternatives that 
are.

On 5 Aug 2002 at 9:44, Miguel Gonzalez Castaqos wrote:

> dear all,
> 
>  I think we all agree that this autorespond emails have been quite
> annoying. I was quite shocked when this morning I got 160 e-mails, when
> normally I got 20 e-mail daily and most of them were from this guy.
> Since, at least in my case, this is my e-mail for working and I am
> subscribed to this mailing list for working reasons, maybe I could be
> warned to be getting so many e-mails.
> 
>  Anyway, what I am scared about is that I leave for one week before this
> guy comes back (the 11th), so my e-mail could be blocked very easily in
> a few days, and maybe blocking the delivery of very important e-mails.
> 
>  I do not know if there is a feature for temporaly unsubscriptions in
> this mailing list, but could be interesting in case like these.
> 
>  I hope this e-mail does not sound very imperative, rather than a
> suggestion (the latter is my intention).
> 
>  Sorry for my bad English.
> 
>  Many thanks in advance
> 
>  Miguel
> 
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