I am totally in agreement with this - it really annoys me when you get 20-30
"I'm on holiday" messages within the first hour of a day
If I had more time I would have unsubscribed that guy myself today, but I
think this is MUCH more effective - as long as it's in the notes when people
subscribe, they can't claim ignorance
I can understand if people forget they're in a small list, but CF-Talk has a
huge amount of traffic - only the terminally stupid or forgetful won't
remember that they're "Out Of Office" message will hit 300 times a day...
Philip Arnold
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Certified ColdFusion Developer
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Dinowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 15 January 2001 13:44
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: (Admin) Vacations and being banned
>
>
> I really hate being a bad guy. I try to be good, I try to be
> nice, but once
> in a while someone does something to really upset me and I get the urge to
> be bad. This 'something' that a person can do is usually something stupid.
> Yes, I said stupid. People who act without thinking really upset
> me and that
> leads to very bad things. What has been done this time to upset
> me? Vacation
> notices being set for lists.
> During the holidays, many people set vacation notices and mail
> messages were
> bouncing all around because of it. I wrote a filter to stop most of them
> from coming to the list but still a few get through. In addition to the
> filter, I sent out message after message with the (Admin) header asking
> people to unsubscribe from the lists when they go on vacation. You'd think
> they'd listen.
> The major problem other than having a TON of garbage posts about
> "being out
> of the office" or "Gone fishing" is that the people most ready to complain
> about them are the same people who set them. For this reason, I'm
> setting a
> new policy for the lists. If someone goes on vacation and sets an
> auto-responder that sends an email to ANY House of Fusion list,
> they will be
> banned for the time of the vacation PLUS a week after.
> I know this is an extreme measure, but maybe people will learn from it.
>
>
>
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