On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Owen McShane wrote:
>
> On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Brian Staubach wrote:
>
> > I am currently out of the office on business returning on Monday, October 2, 2000.
> I will be checking emails at the end of each day.
>
> Arghhhhhh.
>
> The name Brian Staubach will be permanently etched on my brain :(
>
> Whilst I think setting the reply to: field on a mailing list to the
> list itself can be a good idea, as we've all replied to mailing list posts
> only to realise we've only replied to the original poster, it's this sort
> of thing that highlights how dangerous it can be.
>
> How's about reverting back to the usual non-reply to: style Stephen?
>
First, apologies to everyone on the mailing list. Apologies especially to
those whose mailboxes filled up and who consequently lost other mail.
Thanks to Chris Rutter for notifying isite, and for their prompt action once
they were notified. Unfortunately it took 11 hours before anyone did notify
them. (Other people notified me, but I wasn't logged on. Had I been, I would
already have dealt with it.)
As to the question above -- I think Reply-To: list is actually more common.
But that didn't in itself cause the problem. There were two other mistakes:
(i) Using a broken vacation program. Such programs shouldn't use the
Reply-To: but the From: or Sender: (ii) not unsubscribing from mailing lists
when he went away. Note that either mistake would have been relatively
harmless on its own.
Some trivia:
Staubach sent 370 messages in just over 12 hours, from 1544 to 0348 EDT.
7 of his messages didn't reach the list because they were too long.
I also received 2306 bounces from other people, mainly due to full
mailboxes. So my total mailbox size was over 2700 messages.
23 out of 271 people unsubscribed themselves from the list.
--
Stephen Turner http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~sret1/
Statistical Laboratory, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB, England
"The new operating system will recover more easily from system crashes."
(Microsoft, aiming high with Windows Millennium)
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