Re: [gentoo-user] autorespond

2009-04-29 Thread KH
fe...@crowfix.com schrieb: On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 05:31:06PM +0200, Xavier Parizet wrote: As his autoresponder respond to all mail received to his mail address, i sent at 12h15 a mail faking hist email address to gentoo-user+unsubscr...@lists.gentoo.org and it did the trick... Now i think

Re: [gentoo-user] autorespond

2009-04-29 Thread KH
Neil Bothwick schrieb: On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:12:02 +0200, Jarry wrote: That's a little harsh. He may not even know his company's auto-responder is so hideously broken. IMHO, setting up any kind of auto-responder is a *huge* mistake. Any kind? Even a well functioning one that send no

Re: [gentoo-user] autorespond

2009-04-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 29 April 2009 11:25:41 KH wrote: fe...@crowfix.com schrieb: On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 05:31:06PM +0200, Xavier Parizet wrote: As his autoresponder respond to all mail received to his mail address, i sent at 12h15 a mail faking hist email address to

Re: [gentoo-user] autorespond

2009-04-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:34:11 +0200, KH wrote: IMHO, setting up any kind of auto-responder is a *huge* mistake. Any kind? Even a well functioning one that send no more than one mail to any address in a day? I use a procmail rule to take care of this, it appears after list filtering

Re: [gentoo-user] autorespond

2009-04-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:42:59 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Unsubscribing the user will have reduced the traffic he is causing by a significant margin. And give the list admins breathing space in which to add a rule to silently drop messages from that address. I suppose what we really need is a

Re: [gentoo-user] autorespond

2009-04-29 Thread KH
To answer you question: It depends. I was responding to a statement that any kind of auto-responder is wrong, so it depends is not allowed :) so the correct answer is: NO. :-) Another use it to let people know that their mail has been received. I company I do work for has an

Re: [gentoo-user] autorespond

2009-04-29 Thread Markus Schönhaber
Neil Bothwick: I suppose what we really need is a standard header to be inserted by auto-responders. Then mailing list software can simply ignore any such mails. In theory a good solution. In practice I doubt it helps. Whoever is able to configure an auto-responder in such a completely

Re: [gentoo-user] autorespond

2009-04-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:15:30 +0200, Markus Schönhaber wrote: I suppose what we really need is a standard header to be inserted by auto-responders. Then mailing list software can simply ignore any such mails. In theory a good solution. In practice I doubt it helps. Whoever is able to

Re: [gentoo-user] autorespond

2009-04-29 Thread Eray Aslan
On 29.04.2009 14:30, Neil Bothwick wrote: In fact, all that's needed is already there (just the other way round, though): every list I'm subscribed to adds a Precedence header field (with values of bulk or list) to the messages. A sane auto-responder will not send replies to messages

Re: [gentoo-user] autorespond

2009-04-28 Thread KH
zhen schrieb: Hi. It seems that somebody has started autoresponder for his email. And now it is replying to it's own replies to lists once an hour. It seems like an endless mail loop. Is there way to stop it? Best regards, Evgeniy B. I called his company and they promissed to stop it

Re: [gentoo-user] autorespond

2009-04-28 Thread AllenJB
The list admins have been notified - you can track the issue at https://bugs.gentoo.org/267740 AllenJB zhen wrote: Hi. It seems that somebody has started autoresponder for his email. And now it is replying to it's own replies to lists once an hour. It seems like an endless mail loop. Is

Re: [gentoo-user] autorespond

2009-04-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:46:46 +0400, zhen wrote: It seems that somebody has started autoresponder for his email. And now it is replying to it's own replies to lists once an hour. It seems like an endless mail loop. Is there way to stop it? A bug report has already been filed, we'll just have

Re: [gentoo-user] autorespond

2009-04-28 Thread Daniel de Oliveira
Yes, moderating him. On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 06:46, zhen z...@dotcomltd.ru wrote: Hi. It seems that somebody has started autoresponder for his email. And now it is replying to it's own replies to lists once an hour. It seems like an endless mail loop. Is there way to stop it? Best regards,

Re: [gentoo-user] autorespond

2009-04-28 Thread Daniel de Oliveira
Where is the moderation? Man, its so stupid using Vacancy-auto-respond on a mail that you read a lot of mailing lists. We'll receive that to every mail sended to him. On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 09:06, Daniel de Oliveira akulatra...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, moderating him. On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at

Re: [gentoo-user] autorespond

2009-04-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:10:45 -0300, Daniel de Oliveira wrote: Where is the moderation? This list is not moderated. Man, its so stupid using Vacancy-auto-respond on a mail that you read a lot of mailing lists. We'll receive that to every mail sended to him. It's more a case of a broken

Re: [gentoo-user] autorespond

2009-04-28 Thread Jarry
Daniel de Oliveira wrote: Yes, moderating him. He deserves much more than that. Life-time ban for that stupidity would be adequate... Jarry -- ___ This mailbox accepts e-mails only from selected mailing-lists! Everything else is

Re: [gentoo-user] autorespond

2009-04-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 28 April 2009, Jarry wrote: Daniel de Oliveira wrote: Yes, moderating him. He deserves much more than that. Life-time ban for that stupidity would be adequate... Jarry you are a flawless person. you never made a little mistake in your life time. Did you?

Re: [gentoo-user] autorespond

2009-04-28 Thread Xavier Parizet
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:24:31 +0200, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: Daniel de Oliveira wrote: Yes, moderating him. As his autoresponder respond to all mail received to his mail address, i sent at 12h15 a mail faking hist email address to gentoo-user+unsubscr...@lists.gentoo.org and it did the

Re: [gentoo-user] autorespond

2009-04-28 Thread Daniel de Oliveira
When I say to moderate him its just for a little time, not life-time. On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 12:29, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Dienstag 28 April 2009, Jarry wrote: Daniel de Oliveira wrote: Yes, moderating him. He deserves much more than that. Life-time ban

Re: [gentoo-user] autorespond

2009-04-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:24:31 +0200, Jarry wrote: Yes, moderating him. He deserves much more than that. Life-time ban for that stupidity would be adequate... That's a little harsh. He may not even know his company's auto-responder is so hideously broken. -- Neil Bothwick Nostalgia

Re: [gentoo-user] autorespond

2009-04-28 Thread Jarry
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Dienstag 28 April 2009, Jarry wrote: Daniel de Oliveira wrote: Yes, moderating him. He deserves much more than that. Life-time ban for that stupidity would be adequate... you are a flawless person. you never made a little mistake in your life time. Did you?

Re: [gentoo-user] autorespond

2009-04-28 Thread Jarry
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:24:31 +0200, Jarry wrote: Yes, moderating him. He deserves much more than that. Life-time ban for that stupidity would be adequate... That's a little harsh. He may not even know his company's auto-responder is so hideously broken. IMHO, setting

Re: [gentoo-user] autorespond

2009-04-28 Thread Saphirus Sage
Toppost due to iPhone. I just made a measure through gmail to block the source of the epic-spammed autoreplies. On Apr 28, 2009, at 11:29 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Dienstag 28 April 2009, Jarry wrote: Daniel de Oliveira wrote: Yes, moderating him.

Re: [gentoo-user] autorespond

2009-04-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:12:02 +0200, Jarry wrote: That's a little harsh. He may not even know his company's auto-responder is so hideously broken. IMHO, setting up any kind of auto-responder is a *huge* mistake. Any kind? Even a well functioning one that send no more than one mail to any

Re: [gentoo-user] autorespond

2009-04-28 Thread felix
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 05:31:06PM +0200, Xavier Parizet wrote: As his autoresponder respond to all mail received to his mail address, i sent at 12h15 a mail faking hist email address to gentoo-user+unsubscr...@lists.gentoo.org and it did the trick... Now i think he is spammed with you're not