On Tuesday 06 July 2010, Syed Zaeem Hosain ([email protected]) wrote: >On Friday, July 02, 2010 11:11 AM, Dustin wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Syed Zaeem Hosain 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. > >Okay, a report. I think my experiment was (a) prior to the changes made by > Todd and (b) included the July 4th vacation weekend here in the US and > Canada day too. > >I only received three auto-responses to my little experiment. And, one > person apparently does not have a "once a week filter" set, so I got an > auto-response from them a second time. But there was only one > auto-response to that second post ... > >Frankly, I get *way* more spam in an hour coming *past* my spam filters > (external system and e-mail client) than that. > >Given that you mentioned that this mailing list has a few thousand people > on it (is that correct?), it seems to me that we may be making a mountain > out of a molehill here. > >In my opinion only, of course.:) > >> 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. > >Ummmmm ... if we all really believe that three auto-responses, in a busy > vacation weekend, from a few thousand people, constitutes a big enough > problem that would/should cause stop somebody from posting to the list, > then I think we are over-reacting a bit. > >Again, in my opinion only. > >Now, back to "normal programming" ... enuff said from me. :) > >Z > Well, I wouldn't fuss, if the auto responses actually came back to the mailing list, but they always come back as personal. And that clutters up my inbox since I sort all the lists to their own folders. I often go back a week later and clean out the trash, leaving only my wanted messages anyway.
FWIW, I got the same 3 auto things for the last post too. -- 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) Thank you for observing all safety precautions.
