R�ponse suit --- chris wrote on 1/11/04 15:33 (+01:00): [...]
>>Since I already had an html filter in place, adding the autoreply feature >>was a piece of cake. Now, it appears that most offending messages are in >>fact virus. this means the autoreply goes either to a fake email address, >>or to a real one, but stuffed with unread messages. The result is I >>receive an additional message stating that my reply did not go through. > >I wouldn't automate it. > >If you look over your blank HTML attachment emails, I think you will find >a tiny portion of those are actually legit. In fact, likely it will turn >out to be one or two people only that do it. I looked, and that is what I see happening, even less than one or two (none, so far) are legit. >The rest are either virus or spam, both of which you don't want to reply >to, because neither will do any good so all you are doing at best is >clogging the internet with more junk, or worse you will annoy someone >who's address is being used by virus (it won't be them sending the virus >so you aren't alerting them to anything helpful, you are just filling >their inbox with junk they don't need to be bothered with). OR like you >said, you may in fact tell a spammer that your address is a good address. OK >So basically, I would only send the reply manually to someone that you >think will benefit from the info. But keep in mind, the problem may be >out of their control. Their mail client is already broken, so it may not >offer a plain text only option. Thanks, and thanks to all who responded. I will keep the option manual. -- Jean-Pierre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
