On 8/16/07, Dawn Kolb wrote: > Am I missing something? What problems did his auto-responder cause?
Everyone on the list got a copy. All auto-responders should be set up so that they do not respond to any list traffic. He's a digest user, so if he were to see another digest, he'd generate another auto-response to the whole list. If he weren't a digest user, he'd be generating an auto-response for every single post to the list -- including all of his own auto-responses. Imagine if two such people were on the list, so that they both replied to all posts on the list, including the auto-responses from the other guy. That's one of the quickest possible ways to kill a mailing list, and to bury all the mailing list recipients with hundreds of thousands or millions of copies of the same damn stupid auto-response. > I just > want to know in case I forget to disable any lists that I am on. Or is it > something specific to him because he is a co-moderator of this list? He's not the co-moderator, I am. And I kill subscriptions from people with bad auto-responders, with extreme prejudice. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Consultant & Author LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> Slides from Invited Talks: <http://tinyurl.com/tj6q4> 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 ------------------------------------------------------ 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
