It's bad that the users do not know how to behave properly as part of a public list, but it's worse that it is tolerated.
Friendliness is a value of the CAS Community; tolerance is a natural outcome of that value. In most cases of list backscatter we remove the person and send a friendly note. Out-of-office automatic responses, which represent the vast majority of list spam, go directly to the poster. There is absolutely nothing we can do in that case.
This case was pretty extreme and my only regret was not acting sooner. I'll be moving to get admin privileges on the list software so that there will be one more active member who can take action when needed.
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