On 14 Aug 2003 at 10:02, Berg Oswell wrote: > Is it any of your business, as list owner, what people send > off-list? Even if it's in response to list traffic? Who appointed you > the censor of all that someone else sends?
Indeed, IMO it is my business! If I get a slew of complaints from people on my list that someone is harassing them or otherwise hassling them based on their presence on my mailing list, I *WILL* ban [or at least warn] the offender. Makes no difference to me if it is spamming the folk or vacation-bombing them or posting annoying things or anything else. If you're to be allowed on a list I run, you have to "Play nice". It isn't a slam-dunk, of course -- one complaint clearly won't get someone banned and you have to make allowances for differences in 'style', but if my list gets 100posts a day and all 100 complain about getting the vacation [or anything else] from a particular person, they're off *my* list.. Obviously, YMMV. > Oh, I'm not saying you can't, but if you act arbitrarily and > unfairly, you'll kill your list...who wants to be on a list with an > unpredictable, arrogant list-owner? What's "unfair" -- if you misbehave and for whatever reason piss off/irritate enough of the other listmembers, how is dropping you off the list acting arbitrarily? > From what the original poster has said, the guy running the > autoresponder hasn't done anything wrong. You need to be careful about judgmental words like "wrong" here. I think there is a consensus [at the very least it is my opinion] that sending a vacation message to someone who sent a message to a mailing list is "wrong behavior" -- polite or not, it is still "wrong" in my book... > . If anything, he's being polite, > and letting people who send him mail know that he's on vacation and can't > answer right away. Who cares? I don't know who that person was, I don't care that he either did or did not get a copy of the message -- if I cared, I'd have sent him a copy personally/directly [and in that case, a 'vacation' is just right]. If you post to list-managers, do you really want 200 "I'm on vacation" messages from random folk you don't know and have never heard of? > ... Given the number of rude jerks on the internet, do you > really want to punish someone for being polite and thoughtful? Polite, yes --- but thoughtful, no. We've been through all that. /Bernie\ -- Bernie Cosell Fantasy Farm Fibers mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Pearisburg, VA --> Too many people, too few sheep <--
