On 29 Sep 2009, at 10:31, Nicholas Clark wrote:
[...]
(Yes, I have chosen to effectively waste 850 subscribers' time by
replying
to this message, because I want to draw everyone's attention to
this, so
that they don't screw up this way themselves. Autoresponders to
lists, of
any form, do not a good advertisement make.)
... especially autoresponders which send to the From: or Reply-To:
address instead of the envelope sender, which should (eventually)
unsubscribe the address.
The various email RFCs are freely-available and easy to read. Why
don't people bother?