More feedback on the subject - I appreciate that rapport of friendliness enough to think it worth enduring the occasional inconvenience that occurred. Most client provide a means to deal with the spam burst in some kind of relatively efficient manner and the value of all the real content that we get from this list far outweighs the whatever headache was caused.
Thanks to those of you who responded as quickly as you could to address it. Ted F. Fisher Server Administrator Bowling Green State University 323 Hayes Hall Information Technology Services Email: [email protected] Phone: 419.372.1626 -----Original Message----- From: Marvin S. Addison [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 1:21 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [cas-user] spammed by same email > 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. Apologies folks. M -- You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: [email protected] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/cas-user -- You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: [email protected] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/cas-user
