On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 09:31, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Friday 03 Oct 2003 10:38 am, HaywireMac wrote: > > On Fri, 03 Oct 2003 12:07:13 +0300 > > > > Robin Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > > I replied, somewhat brusquely: > > > > I doubt you could out-brusque me... ;-) I called him "Pippy". > > > > Anyhow, I think it is an automated response, prolly a bounce. > > > > Best just to /dev/null it. > > This highlights the danger of setting up an automatic bounce or > reject, without sufficient monitoring. He/she had to sign up in the > first place. If there was any reasonable monitoring it would quickly > be noticed that list traffic was being affected. > > However, there have been several cases where it has been obvious that > people have not realised what they were signing up for. I wonder if > it is time we considered asking MandrakeSoft to add to the sign-up > invitation the fact that signing up to an active list indicates a > willingness to receive considerable amounts of mail? > > Anne it occurs to me that this might even be a filter someone setup to kill the SMS message stuff, and now all the stuff with newbie in the header or body gets /dev/nulled, so he don't even see the replies. next he will be wondering why he does not get even his posts to the list....<g>
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