On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 05:41:51 AM +0000, jonathon
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> On Jan 5, 2008 4:38 PM, M. Fioretti wrote:
>
> > forbids any "well known opponent of OOo" from mailbombing, as you describe,
> > *today*.
>
> Using autoresponders to do your mailbombing has a long and
> dishonourable history.
This one is an autoresponder that would only react to messages from
unsubscribed users accepted by the moderators, so it cannot be more
mailbombing than the moderators are, can it?
> > Coding the autoresponder to not send more than N notifications per
> > week, day, whatever, to the same address would also be trivial.
> I'm not sure if you meant "x" responses per day, regardless of the
> number of times messages it receives triggers it, or "x" per address
> per time period.
The second. Set 'x' to a reasonable number (how many unsubscribed
users will ever receive more than, uh, 20 answers to a question in one day?
> Mike described the most common method of mailbombing somebody by using
> an autoresponder. Other scenarios are more damaging to the victim.
Let's discuss them then. The current scenario is pretty damaging to
the rescuers.
Marco
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