On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, JC Dill wrote:
> (although they do work at ISPs). A few days ago a vacation program started
> replying to every message posted, sending the reply back *to the list* (not
> to the message author). I posted to the list that I had set the
> miscreant's subscription to nomail and would lart him when he returned from
> his vacation.
don't you hate when that happens - sigh...
> Since then I've received 2 forwarded emails regarding another subscriber's
> vacation autoresponder that is responding *to the author* for each post to
> the list. Since these messages are not going *to the list*, should I, as
> list owner, take any action (set their subscription to nomail, or ?)
> against the subscriber?
personally, I don't do anything in these cases - this is not unreasonable
behavior for a vacation autoresponder, and personally, there are times
that I post something to a list and want to know that certain people
haven't seen it -- the impact on the list and the subscribers is minimal
(as compared to autoresponses that cause mail loops)
Miles
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