On Aug 23, 2004, at 8:57 AM, Jeff Barger wrote:
Is Mailman capable of blocking this kind of message?
You can play around with the spam filtering to catch a lot of these messages. IMHO, it's best to just stop munging the Reply-To. See this page: <http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html>.
true. if you're coercing reply-to, you're funnelling all of that traffic onto the list. have fun.
As Jeff noted -- well-behaved vacation bots don't cause a problem, because they follow the rules and don't send those messages to lists. The ones that don't -- are broken. And trying to stop them up front will fail, because they don't follow the rules you could use to catch them (because if they do follow the rules, they don't send the messages!). since there are an infinite variation of "out of ..." or "on vacation" or "away from..." or "etc ..." ways people write those messages, attempting to string-trap them will simply waste endless amounts of your time and energy,a dn still fail (leaving you pissed and frustrated).
Here's how I suggest handling it. In your list policy docs, make it clear that it's a person's responsibility to use vacation bots appropriately. my policy is simple: if one shows up on a list, or sending vacation notices to a list admin or the listserver, that address is unsubscribed. Immediately. no warnings, no followups. Just an unsubscribe. it's then the person's responsibiltiy to figure it out and subscribe again if they want.
If the same address resubscribes, and then we get MORE vacation notices from it, they're unsubscribed and banned. Users are allowed to make one mistake and fix it. if they don't, they're not welcome. that gives them the responsibility ot fix it, and some motivation to do so. if you don't? they won't.
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