On Fri, 2001-11-02 at 23:37, Greg Ward wrote:
I believe that "stupid autoresponders" is one of the canonical reasons why reply-to "the list" is Considered Harmful. IOW, if you insist on having reply-to "the list", you will probably have to live with this annoyance.
Stupid autoresponders appear to be endlessly inventive - matched in ingenuity only by stupid virus scanners (which reinject scanned mail into a system with the wrong recipients).
Autoresponders manage to come up with ways of re-injecting mail to mailing lists even when reply-to list is not set (although setting list reply-to is a good way of provoking them, and hideously bad for other reasons).
I wonder if its possible to come up with a better set of filters in the Mailman pipeline to pick up bad autoresponders automatically and push their output to the moderation queue. It would then be useful to have a couple more options on the moderation interface:-
this user/autoreply pattern is OK
this user has a broken autoresponder - suspend them
this user has a broken autoresponder - unsub them
this user has a broken autoresponder - ban them permanently from the list server (including ubsub from all lists) [I would like to have the nuke option too, but this appears subject to network infrastructure requirements at present]
Nigel.