Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote on 7/14/2006 4:25 AM:
BTW, the same applies to out-of-office and other autoresponders; it is
abusive for them to autorespond to list traffic.
I'm the listowner for ISPF-L, a list with (only) 500-600 subscribers and
much much lower traffic than IBM-MAIN. However, my tolerance for
autoresponders is nil. If your autoresponder responds to the list, I
will probably set your subscription to DIGEST. If it happens again and
I realize it's not the first time, you may be deleted from the list (or
set to NOMAIL). My tolerance for autoresponders responding to list mail
is so low in fact, that the above applies if I get responses back
directly when I post to the list. Nobody posting to a discussion list
should have to get bombarded with a bunch of out-of-office replies
because either the autoresponder is a piece of junk or the user didn't
properly configure it.
It's either use a different address or get your mail
administrators to lighten up.
Either way the recipients should get their mail administrators to fix
their broken configurations before they wind up being blocked.
Exactly. And if they can't, Darren's point is that they need to
subscribe from somewhere else that isn't list-unfriendly.
At my last job, I never subscribed to mailing lists from my work
address, and in hindsight, that was a really good decision. I never
received any spam at all to that work address. Makes me wonder what
other mail I didn't receive, and/or wouldn't have received if I had
discussion list subscriptions at that address.
/Leonard
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