Paul Russell wrote:
> Perhaps this sounds arrogant, but the fact is, we are providing a free
> service on our own time, and we believe we have both the right and the
> obligation to determine how that service is used. Most of our
> subscribers apparently share our belief that it is wholly inappropriate
> to send an OOO in response to a list posting, because more than half of
> the complaints sent to the list owners are about OOOs.
Sending something, anything, off-list does not use your service.
Do your list rules specifically forbid the use of auto-responders
by people on the list? If so, then you can ban someone for using one, if
the penalty for using one, in the rules they agreed to, specify banning.
But if it's not in the rules, then you have no right to govern someone's
activities off-list.
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