blocking this guy´s email

[Ronald Wiplinger]

Pete Phillips wrote:

>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.
>

A vacation program should not answer to

Precedence: bulk

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bye

Ronald

>
>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
>>
>>[demime 0.99c.8 removed an attachment of type text/x-vcard which had a name of mgc.vcf]
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> 
>-- Pete Phillips
>-- San Antonio, Texas
>-- pete "at" atdt911.com
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