On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, JC Dill wrote: > (although they do work at ISPs). A few days ago a vacation program started > replying to every message posted, sending the reply back *to the list* (not > to the message author). I posted to the list that I had set the > miscreant's subscription to nomail and would lart him when he returned from > his vacation.
don't you hate when that happens - sigh... > Since then I've received 2 forwarded emails regarding another subscriber's > vacation autoresponder that is responding *to the author* for each post to > the list. Since these messages are not going *to the list*, should I, as > list owner, take any action (set their subscription to nomail, or ?) > against the subscriber? personally, I don't do anything in these cases - this is not unreasonable behavior for a vacation autoresponder, and personally, there are times that I post something to a list and want to know that certain people haven't seen it -- the impact on the list and the subscribers is minimal (as compared to autoresponses that cause mail loops) Miles ************************************************************************** The Center for Civic Networking PO Box 600618 Miles R. Fidelman, President & Newtonville, MA 02460-0006 Director, Municipal Telecommunications Strategies Program 617-558-3698 fax: 617-630-8946 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://civic.net/ccn.html Information Infrastructure: Public Spaces for the 21st Century Let's Start With: Internet Wall-Plugs Everywhere Say It Often, Say It Loud: "I Want My Internet!" **************************************************************************
