On 13-jul-2007, at 8:00, Ken Raeburn wrote:
That doesn't help much, because then we all still get private
vacation messages. Please kick these people off the list.
Shutting off their list email when we don't need to seems kind of
drastic.
So people who are SO inconsiderate that they not only send vacation
messages for messages sent to mailinglists, which is clearly
extremely undesirable behavior, but even worse, send those messages
to the LIST, should be spared all possible inconvenience?
Sure, that makes sense.
It shouldn't be hard to convince mailman that subjects matching
patterns "^out of office autoreply:" or "^autoreply:", for example,
should be rejected (bounced to sender) or discarded (distasteful to
me, on the miniscule chance that someone would have the misfortune
to select a subject like "autoreply: useful practice or tool of the
devil?" for a legitimate message on email reply bots, that would
quietly never get delivered). In fact, I suspect doing so would
address 95% of the problems, without having to suspend anyone's mail.
Just unsubscribe anyone who sends autoreplies to the mailinglist and
be done with it.
I'm sure we can find a former AD to provide an introduction to email
filtering on the sunday before the IETF if we ask nicely for those of
us who plan on taking that up as a hobby.
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