On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Horst Pflugstaedt wrote: > Normally a reasonnably configured utoresponder will only send this > message once. So actually most of these ppl _are_ subscribed to d-s. > > > > > > Badhearts (why should a black hat as such be a bad thing?) might take > > > advantage of a sysadmin's absence to break into systems, houses, > > > relationships, ... > > > > You're right. > > Is he? I think the risk of potential harm is higher if people do _not_ > know that you are not at work than if some people _do_ know you are not. > Just think of a customer waiting for a reply to an email...
Perhaps you are right, that the potential harm can be greater if customers do not know you are at work. But in fact I do not care who on this list is having a great time on the beach or what ever. So if someone uses such a autoresponder, he should know that the d-s list is not a customer and could configure it in such a way that it will not respond to d-s. For me that would be a resonable configured autoresponder. Thomas ____________________________________________________________________________ "Man sollte nur gut aussehende Frauen heiraten, dann hat man bessere Aussichten, sie auch wieder loswerden zu können!" G. Berger **************************************************************************** Thomas Stemler Technische Universität Darmstadt Tel.: +49-6151-16-2932 Institut für Festkörperphysik Fax.: +49-6151-16-2833 AG Nichtlineare Spinwellendynamik Hochschulstr. 6 D-64289 Darmstadt Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ****************************************************************************