Am/On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:27:22 -0500 schrieb/wrote Grant Taylor: >On 6/28/2009 8:15 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: >> I would say the autoresponder is broken if it is responding >> repeatedly to the same address on behalf of the same recipient. I >> would also say it's broken it it responds to the list for an >> individual message (not a digest) unless the list is anonymous and >> puts the list address in the From: of delevered posts. Finally, this >> is probably more controversial, but I think it's broken if it can't >> identify its own autoresponses from Message-ID: or something else and >> not respond to one of its own messages. > >I *REALLY* /wish/ that was the case. I've got an end user that has set >up an Out of Office (a.k.a. OoO) auto-reply in Outlook that is replying >to every frigging message that comes in. > >OoO auto responders usually reply to the From: (header) address of >messages as they have on concept of the SMTP envelope sender. So if the >mailing list either sets the From: or Reply-To: header, that's where the >OoO replies will go. > >I have seen more than a few OoO auto-responders that generate a >completely new message to the From: / Reply-To: address with out any >form of identification as to who it is replying to. > >In my opinion, OoO auto responders are probably some of the worst things >in email. I've been in an environment where two OoO auto responders >were battling with each other and generated almost 100,000 messages over >a weekend.
we immediately ban people sending autoresponses to a list. We've put that in our list rules. Basically it's up to the list participant to set up his/her autoresponder to not reply to any list messages. Probably one could set up a filter or something to catch most of the autoresponses and filter them out. cheers, Matthias ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 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://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9