Re: mr petrie is history - [[but should he really be?]]

2002-11-18 Thread Kent Borg
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 04:18:05PM -0600, John Nichel wrote: > Yes, it is really the end user's fault. Kinda. But to be practical, in a world where "my mom" is starting to subscribe to mailing lists, the real bug here is to have a vacation program not ignore the "Precedence: bulk" that every sens

Re: mr petrie is history - [[but should he really be?]]

2002-11-18 Thread Frank Bax
At 07:54 AM 11/16/02, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: Hello Ed, > In any case, mailman does have options to detect infinite loops like > this but even the current production releases miss a few. In the beta > releases, the detection is supposed to be better and more cases will be > caught. Coul

RE: mr petrie is history - [[but should he really be?]]

2002-11-17 Thread Cameron . Davidson
> > ... The answer is simple: DON'T USE AUTORESPONDERS. > I don't think so. Any rule that relies on 100% conformance is not going to work well enough. As demonstrated by this episode. It only takes one subscriber out of this rather large list to forget and ... here we go again. Is it poss

RE: mr petrie is history - [[but should he really be?]]

2002-11-16 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
What are you a Troll? D'uh! The answer is simple: DON'T USE AUTORESPONDERS. He isn't banned, he's just unsubscribed, but I would put a 30-day hold on him resubscribing. He should be more careful w/ lists, if you know you get lists, it is your responsibility to make sure that your rules

Mailman loop detection (was Re: mr petrie is history - [[but should he really be?])

2002-11-16 Thread Ed Wilts
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 01:54:20PM +0100, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > > > In any case, mailman does have options to detect infinite loops like > > this but even the current production releases miss a few. In the beta > > releases, the detection is supposed to be better and more cases will be

Re: mr petrie is history - [[but should he really be?]]

2002-11-16 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Ed, > In any case, mailman does have options to detect infinite loops like > this but even the current production releases miss a few. In the beta > releases, the detection is supposed to be better and more cases will be > caught. Could you maybe explain how this would be implemented? A m

Re: mr petrie is history - [[but should he really be?]]

2002-11-15 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr
Richard Tricoche wrote: What happens when Mr. Petrie comes in Monday morning to check his latest posts on the mailing list and sees he has been banned? What happens when someone else on the list stays home one day and forgets to manually unsubscribe to the mailing list for that day? Well, con

Re: mr petrie is history - [[but should he really be?]]

2002-11-15 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 03:31:05PM -0500, Richard Tricoche wrote: > Is it really the end users fault for not remembering to visit the website > and click the link to unsubscribe for the day... Yes. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscr

Re: mr petrie is history - [[but should he really be?]]

2002-11-15 Thread Ed Wilts
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 03:31:05PM -0500, Richard Tricoche wrote: > > Is it really the end users fault for not remembering to visit the website > and click the link to unsubscribe for the day... or is it the mailing list's > administrator's fault for allowing this type of spam to work it's way > t

Re: mr petrie is history - [[but should he really be?]]

2002-11-15 Thread John Nichel
Richard Tricoche wrote: What happens when Mr. Petrie comes in Monday morning to check his latest posts on the mailing list and sees he has been banned? What happens when someone else on the list stays home one day and forgets to manually unsubscribe to the mailing list for that day? I don't t

RE: mr petrie is history - [[but should he really be?]]

2002-11-15 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Richard Tricoche wrote: > What happens when Mr. Petrie comes in Monday morning to check his latest > posts on the mailing list and sees he has been banned? oh, geez. he hasn't been banned. he's been unsubscribed. he can always resubscribe later. rday -- redhat-list

RE: mr petrie is history - [[but should he really be?]]

2002-11-15 Thread Mike Burger
On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Richard Tricoche wrote: > What happens when Mr. Petrie comes in Monday morning to check his latest > posts on the mailing list and sees he has been banned? What happens when > someone else on the list stays home one day and forgets to manually > unsubscribe to the mailing lis

RE: mr petrie is history - [[but should he really be?]]

2002-11-15 Thread Richard Tricoche
Title: RE: mr petrie is history - [[but should he really be?]] What happens when Mr. Petrie comes in Monday morning to check his latest posts on the mailing list and sees he has been banned?  What happens when someone else on the list stays home one day and forgets to manually unsubscribe to