On Aug 8, 2008, at 10:01 AM, Webmaster PF wrote:

1.      How to filter out “Out of Office” replies to the list.

I have found that putting the first few users who use broken autoresponders into a pillory has some deterrent effect, but memories need to be refreshed occasionally.

If for piddling legal or other constraints such as not finding a pillory in working order prevent you from using that approach, I tend to set "no mail" for those uses, and if there is reason to believe that it is a site wide problem, I may bar users from that site, or at least threaten to, always informing the postmaster of the site with the broken autoresponders.

I also direct people to my out-of-date rant on the subject.

 http://www.goldmark.org/netrants/auto-resp/

-j



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Jeffrey Goldberg                        http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/

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