On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 10:13:51PM +0200, Jens Benecke wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 05:32:13AM -0700, Jon wrote:
>
> > Unbelievable!
>
> > On Monday 25 June 2001 10:01 pm, you wrote:
> > > I will be out of the office starting 06/25/2001 and will not return until
> > > 07/02/2001.
>
> Please don't quote the mailing list signature. Thanks.
>
> Anyway, I've already mailed the postmaster about his/her problem (spamming
> mailing lists). In the lists I administer, people who pull such stunts
> (auto-replying to the list etc.) are unsubscribed at once without warning.
Unfortunately, this often happens with "clueless newbies". In this
case, it appears that the sender was running "vacation". The result is
just as bad as mailers which auto-confirm receipt of a message.
Neither of these types of messages should be sent to either a list or
to those who post to a list. I can understand the motivation behind
these "features," but they cause enough unwanted email that they should
simply not exist!
Moral: Do NOT install a package called "vacation" (sometimes it is
bundled with other BSD utilities) unless you know how to configure it
to NOT respond to messages received from a list (if this is possible,
and even then I wouldn't recommend using it!)
Bob
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