At 11:07 AM 10/16/02 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >I take it you didn't visit the web page to see just what tollyboy's >jolly generator was then? I didn't go past the opening page, but >its front and center display was for a combination safety belt and >cod-piece from 500 years back, called a 'security' belt. Complete >with gold chains & assorted S&M trimmings. > >In other words that autoresponder message is nothing more than pure >spam, and has absolutely nothing to do with sane. Pull down >filters, add a from=autoresponder, close, hit ctrl+j and voila! >[email protected] now will get all further copies starting with the 3 >I've got so far today.
Now hold on just a cotton-picking. How do you make the bold statement that rules out that this person, who, no matter his occupation and lack of forethought with his autoresponder, might have a scanner and OS that sane runs on. Your indignant message is based more on what he does as work and not what he is doing regards autoresponders. Do you know the occupation of all the sane-devel list subscribers? I would say remove him temporarily and notify him that if he wants to resubscribe to not put any autoresponders on. Also, my vote is to put a few little filters on the mailing list to reject autoresponders. I certainly cannot advocate removing someone from the list (blocking as someone else has suggested) based on their occupation. If this person does start submitting spam (other than his current non-thinking responder) then yes, by all means, but not guilty until proven innocent. >I recommend US citizens follow suite. Thankfully I am not a US citizen, I am a UK subject, and therefore, if I don't bow to the queen, I can have my head chopped off. - Martyn Ranyard Free Software Advocate jabber - [email protected] icq - 122500800 irc - Joran on oftc msn - [email protected] e - [email protected]
