On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, JC Dill wrote: > 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?
When I get an autoresponse to something I posted to a list, I refer both the person on vacation and their postmaster to: http://www.goldmark.private/netrants/auto-resp/ If it is a list that I run and is not low volume, I will them to "nomail". I also send a message to the postmaster that if I get this from a second user at their site, I may bar all subscriptions to those domains. I do this as im implied threat (which I've never carried out). > Weighing these 2 issues, my present gut feeling is that I should not take > any action if the vacation program is only sending *one* response to each > poster, > Are there other factors I'm overlooking? Consider how it scales. Assume that at any given time, maybe 5% of your list are "on vacation". If they all used broken autoresponders, then a single post to a list of 1000 would generate 50 autoresponses to the sender. Subsequent posts from the same user would generate fewer, but still your policy does not scale well unless only a small minority of users use broken autoresponders. > What I am seeking is not so much "the answer" as to make sure I've asked > all the right questions to help me come up with the answer for my list. Every list is different. I'm providing you with the reasons why I follow a stricter policy than you suggested. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberg http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ Relativism is the triumph of authority over truth, convention over justice Hate spam? Boycott MCI! http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/anti-spam/mci/
