** Sometime around 02:23 -0400 04/15/1999, Jeffrey Goldberg sent everyone:
>On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Vince Sabio wrote:
>
>> I don't know if any of you have ever been "caught" by a well-
>> intentioned-but-not-terribly-bright automated anti-spam autoresponder,
>> [...]
>
>Just to say "me too". I have had one similar experience, but I treat
>anti-spam autoresponders they way I treat any misbehaving autoresponder
>that comes to my attention when managing lists. (And if it comes to my
>attention, then it is almost certainly misbehaving.) I immediately
>unsubscribe the address generating the bad auto response, and complain
>bitterly to the postmaster at the site with the autoresponder.
I agree with the overall approach -- but in this case, a very good
subscriber would have been removed from the list, and the ISP is *clearly*
not going to do anything about the situation.
BTW, in the previous case, the one in which the subscriber changed ISPs,
he finally sent me a note when he had switched ISPs to let me know that
we could communicate directly once again. He also told me that he had
sent a message to a friend of his about the fact that he was unhappy
with the ISP and was in the process of switching to a new one. A little
while later, he received a message from his ISP, quoting the his private
e-mail to his friend, with the words "What's wrong?" at the top of the
message.
He said that that one really put him over the top -- and gives you an
idea of the kinds of people that I've ended up dealing with in these
situations.
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