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:
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.)
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