On Friday, July 02, 2010 11:11 AM, Dustin wrote: > On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Syed Zaeem Hosain wrote: > > Finally, is this problem big enough to matter (I guess I will find out with > > *this* e-mail message ... :)), albeit some of you all do seem to think so!
> I get about one a day, so in general, it's not a big deal - but I'm in the > once-a-week rotation for everyone's autoresponders, since I post all the time. > I imagine that a first-time poster will get a lot more emails, and I'll be > interested to see what your experiment reveals. Okay, a report. I think my experiment was (a) prior to the changes made by Todd and (b) included the July 4th vacation weekend here in the US and Canada day too. I only received three auto-responses to my little experiment. And, one person apparently does not have a "once a week filter" set, so I got an auto-response from them a second time. But there was only one auto-response to that second post ... Frankly, I get *way* more spam in an hour coming *past* my spam filters (external system and e-mail client) than that. Given that you mentioned that this mailing list has a few thousand people on it (is that correct?), it seems to me that we may be making a mountain out of a molehill here. In my opinion only, of course.:) > I've had a few people mention to me offline that they never post to this > list because they get too many autoresponses, which means it's adversely > impacting the community. To me, *that* is a pretty big deal. I'm not > interested in kicking people off the list (that would be counterproductive), > but I think that a fair bit of social pressure is worthwhile. Ummmmm ... if we all really believe that three auto-responses, in a busy vacation weekend, from a few thousand people, constitutes a big enough problem that would/should cause stop somebody from posting to the list, then I think we are over-reacting a bit. Again, in my opinion only. Now, back to "normal programming" ... enuff said from me. :) Z
