Dear Mailman I wonder if you could get back to me at your convenience and let me know whether one of your products would handle a problem I have encountered. I work with a UK reg. Charity charged with handling an 'e-zine' for a group of around 650 legal professionals. Yesterday we sent a 'welcome' mail to that list using the email list function of our Raq4 server, but one of the recipients had an autoresponder configured which sent a mail back to the list saying "im not in...". Unfortunately, her being a member of that list, along with the other 600 members she received her own response back, to which her computer obviously replied with a further "Im not in..." message. Then she got this one back, and replied again, ad nauseum. Within an hour the server buckled under the weight of what we conservatively guess to be around 33,000 emails, and our phone lines melted under the weight of all the other recipients who were getting this "im not in,,," message dozens of times an hour. Having deleted the email list and gradually purged the system of all the mails still queuing, we have conceded we need a more professional system for these mass mailings, hence my email to you. I need some software that will allow only certain individuals within a list to respond to it, any others being discarded, or having some other method of moderating problems such as this I would appreciate your comments at your leisure Mike Dean
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