On Friday 02 July 2010, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: >On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Syed Zaeem Hosain > >([email protected]) <[email protected]> wrote: >> Finally, is this problem big enough to matter (I guess I will find out >> with *this* e-mail message ... :)), albeit some of you all do seem to >> think so! > >I get about one a day, so in general, it's not a big deal - but I'm in >the once-a-week rotation for everyone's autoresponders, since I post >all the time. I imagine that a first-time poster will get a lot more >emails, and I'll be interested to see what your experiment reveals. > >I've had a few people mention to me offline that they never post to >this list because they get too many autoresponses, which means it's >adversely impacting the community. To me, *that* is a pretty big >deal. I'm not interested in kicking people off the list (that would >be counterproductive), but I think that a fair bit of social pressure >is worthwhile. > >Dustin > Maybe if all the breathing bodies on this list replied to the auto- responder, possibly even with a triggered script, the flood of such emails would get the sysadmin's attention? That might be about as distributed a dos as can be, but I'd also bet that it would be at least 50% effective in say 48 hours to such bouncing back and forth.
I did that once, 7 or 8 years ago, to a former ISP who had the idea we were a captive market for his spam messages. It turned out to be the sysadmin himself, unk to the owner of the ISP. It got fixed. I think with a new sysadmin. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Help a swallow land at Capistrano.
