On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 03:43:40PM -0500, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: > On Jun 28, 2009, at 5:34 PM, Karl Zander wrote: > > >This particular autoresponder is not known to be broken. > > It's a bit dated, but I have a rant about broken autoresponder here: > > http://goldmark.org/netrants/auto-resp/
That's quite a nice summary, IMO. > As others have said, if an autoresponder is responding repeatedly to > the same address in the course of a few days it is certainly behaving > badly. Lotus Notes and Exchange autoresponders should not be allowed > near the Internet. I'd rewrite that last part to: "Lotus Notes and poorly-setup Microsoft Exchange installations should not be allowed near the Internet." (I have been known to do Exchange consultancy, but I do have a clue regarding RFCs, mail-delivery, and amn't from the point-and-click "set-up a Mail Server" school of practice.) > I remove people from lists, sending a note to them and their > postmaster saying that as long as they use broken autoresponders they > should not join any Internet email discussion lists. I'm not ~usually~ that mean: I tend to un-sub people, or set their addresses to moderated: a few people don't realize how broken their "approach" is. (I don't always see those messages: through filtering, I attempt to ditch 'out of office' type messages.) -- ``Freedom of the press in Britain means freedom to print such of the proprietor's prejudices as the advertisers don't object to.'' (Hannen Swaffer) ------------------------------------------------------ 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
