backscatter is basically defined as any type of response e-mail which is undesired, which includes (imho) vacation/away notices, as long as we've done our best to notify they are not wanted.
in our case, all of our transactional mail goes through an alias which is monitored - that is, if you reply to one of our transactional e-mails, it will reach a support person. you can probably guess how bad that looks when you factor in automatic responses, but it's still important to us that manual replies be handled. we have an automated system that tries to detect automatic responses and discard them, but it would have been good really to have something block this. this works also for no-reply/noreply aliases which are used by other companies - these mails are not wanted and thus backscatter. Gil On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 6:13 PM, grayhat <gray...@gmx.net> wrote: > It was Tue, 30 Dec 2014 18:02:05 +0200 when > Gil Bahat <g...@magisto.com> wrote: > > > because (afaik) BATV doesn't quiesce automatic responses > > oh, but if "automatic responses" are valid, that is come from a legit > message "you" sent then they should come through; on the other hand, an > automatic response generated by a spoofed email will be stopped by BATV > (or FBMTV) without problems; the point now is to understand what you > really need; see, dealing with OOF and the like isn't a big issue if we > talk about regular emails but may become one in case we talk about the > so-called "mailing campaigns" (I'd call them another way, but I'll > avoid it for the moment); in the latter case, dealing with OOF serves > to detect if a recipient is reachable or not and to let the automated > software pumping emails make decisions. Now, I'm not exactly sure this > discussion has its proper place on this list; but then, maybe I'm wrong > and I'll let the host (Thomas) decide. > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Dive into the World of Parallel Programming! The Go Parallel Website, > sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is > your > hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought > leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a > look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net > _______________________________________________ > Assp-user mailing list > Assp-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming! The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ Assp-user mailing list Assp-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user
