Gene Heskett <gene.hesk...@gmail.com> writes: > On Friday 02 July 2010, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: >n >>On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Gene Heskett <gene.hesk...@gmail.com> >>Often subscribers do not know that their employers are running a >>broken email server, so the best way to stop this is to kindly but >>firmly reply to the autoresponders. Re-subscribing with a gmail or >>yahoo address is always an option. > > My take is that we should send a message to the violator telling him he has > been un-subscribed, and why with no implied rancor. And of course invite > them to resubscribe when they return from holiday, but to use a mail server > that isn't broken if they can. If they have issues with that as a hard and > fast rule, maybe they will take it up with their companies email > administrator, suitably armed and vociferous. ;-)
I am one of the people who has declined to post because of the number of
messages I get from broken autoreponders. I usually flame such people
and their admins:
Please fix or correctly configure your vacation program. The
essential point is that it is not proper to send automatic replies to
mailing list mail. The relevant Internet standard can be read at
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3834
and get responses indicating they understand and are dealing about 1 in
10 or 1 in 20 times.
The basic issue is that "I'm out of the office" messages may only be
sent when the person's address is in the To or CC header. For
mailinglist mail such as this message, that is true only for Gene.
FWIW, At this point I'm in favor of unsubscribing people whose mail
systems are broken in this way, with an explanation of why and that they
are welcome to resubscribe when their mail system is fixed, or from
another address.
I'll report back in a few days how many bounces I got from this message.
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