At 4:12 PM -0800 1/1/98, Paul Allen Rice wrote:
> This kinda goes along with the vacation message problem we sometimes
>seem to have on lists.
>
> How should I handle stuff like this....
> >The message that you sent was opened by the following:
> > wanderso
> >Information about your message:
> > Subject: Welcome to circlejoke
> > Message-Id: <199712230652.XAA00801@userhome.com>
This one is, if I remember correctly, the Lotus mail server. Lotus, in
its infinite wisdom, made this a SERVER configured option, not an
end-user. So you go to that user, tell him to tell his admin to turn it
off, or he'll be removed from the mail list. Works 99% of the time,
because I've found most of the time, the *admin* didn't even know it
was turned on.
Every once in a while I used to run into an admin that told me to sit
on it, and I removed his users from the list. (shrug).
Or you can do what I do now: I have a procmail front end that looks for
these and devnulls them. They're easy to trap, easy to throw away. That
way, I never see them, and I don't have to care how the client's
software is configured and go through the hassle of trying to get it
fixed.
I don't particularly like getting whapped by dozens of autobot
messages. I chose simply to set my system up to trash them. The
alternative is working with the user to make them go away. Both work.
It depends on which you feel is more appropriate. This just wasn't the
kind of issue I felt was worth putting time into, since I don't really
care if they devnull the response or if I do it. The overhead of the
responses as far as system overhead and bandwidth just aren't
significant, and fixing stuff like this takes time.
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<http://www.solutions.apple.com/ListAdmin/>
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