I have to agree with Michael on this one. There are better ways to handle
this situation. Many auto-responders have a setting to send a message for
each message or to send a message for each incoming address. If you select
to reply once for each incoming address you don't end up with a loop like
the one he is talking about and it isn't so annoying. I can deal with one
message that says "I'll be out of the office on such-and-such a date" but
when I get 20 of them it's pretty annoying.
Of course, we are people who work on the internet. Most of us have multiple
email accounts. Auto-responders aren't really necessary for personal email
accounts, just for work accounts. So subscribe your personal account to the
list. Most email clients can check mail from multiple accounts so you can
still get the list email while you're at work. Then you don't end up
sending auto-response messages to the lists, you don't irritate anyone, and
if you manage to get fired while you're away you can still catch up on your
mail. It's all good.
At 09:35 AM 1/15/01 -0500, you wrote:
>2 cases in point. Someone on the JRun talk list (and only that list) had
>over 200 vacation posts before he was removed. Someone on the CF-Talk list
>(and only this list) had over 20 and he was caught early. Both of these
>cases had two major things in common, the sender was using a 'non-standard'
>subject to announce their vacation AND they were setting their email in a
>loop. A post to the list was then sent back to them which resulted in a post
>to the list which was sent back to them...............
>If I didn't catch it early, we'd have 200 posts on the list in no time and
>then I'd be hearing it from everyone.
>Every time this happens, I post a reminder for people to remove themselves
>when they go on vacation. Every reminder is preceded by the (Admin) header
>that should say that the post is important. Some people just don't listen.
>I did write a filter for the entire list and post (again) about vacation
>messages but I can't catch everything. On the other hand, due to all these
>vacation messages getting to the list the filter is getting better. Problem
>is, it may miss some messages or block those that are not vacation posts.
>Maybe a moderation system for 'suspect' posts would be needed. Something new
>to put in. :)
>
>
> > Michael,
> >
> > Maybe I'm in the minority, but I just don't see why people get so angry
> > about vacation messages. I think it's an honest mistake, and when you're
> > subscribed to a dozen lists and looking forward to leaving town I'm sure
> > it's easy to forget to change your settings.
> >
> > I'm sure of one thing: in the amount of time it takes for people to
>complain
> > and call people stupid, the complainers could easily write a filter to
> > delete vacation messages from their inbox.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Marc Garrett
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Michael Dinowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 8:43 AM
> > Subject: (Admin) Vacations and being banned
> >
> >
> > > I really hate being a bad guy.
> >
> >
> >
>
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