Brad Knowles wrote: >At 1:43 PM -0500 2005-03-31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> I now know how to set it up as announce only. I even know how to put my >> database on with out sending out a thank you for subscribing mail. How do >> I >> stop the continuing replies? > > Well, that depends on how they're doing the continuing replies. >If all those people are doing "Reply-All", then most of them are >being sent directly from each person to each other person who was >named in the previous message to which someone did a "Reply-All", and >since none of that passes through your machines, there's not much you >can do. > > Anything passing through your machines should be passing through >your lists, and if you've got the list configurations set up >correctly now, they should already be stopped.
One other thing to consider is you may still have some number of old outgoing messages queued in your MTA since it may well have been way overloaded at some point You could investigate how to delete those queued messages before they're sent, but that's beyond the scope of this list. >> Sorry to bother you about this, it was my own ignorance that put me here, >> but I was hoping that you might be able to suggest sometihng to get me out. > > In my experience, one general rule is that when you add a bunch >of people to a list and you don't send out an announcement welcoming >them to the list, and large numbers of people start immediately >responding with "STOP SENDING ME E-MAIL" complaints, etc.... that >means you're basically sending spam, and that makes you a spammer. This is generally true, but in many cases, it's only one or two people who initially respond and most of the subsequent mess is people responding "Don't tell me to stop sending you mail. I didn't send you anything. now you stop sending me mail." > In the future, if you don't want to be lumped in with that class >of person, I would encourage you to do things differently so that >your activities do not encourage those people to respond that way. Agreed. -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
