On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 05:22:53PM -0500, Clark Cooper wrote:
I had a situation where a user on one of my lists had the vacation utility turned on and a posting to the list resulted in a looped email because the vacation email response was then posted and on and on. The reply-to posts option has been set to "the list" and I would like to keep this setting. Is
I take it, you've already read the pro (no 's') and cons http://marc.merlins.org/netrants/listreplyto.html
there any setting that can be changed to keep this from happening? I can
Outside of removing the reply to, which will catch many but not all of those problems, my usual answer is to blackhole the server the Emails came from, and send the following to the postmaster: http://marc.merlins.org/netrants/autoresponders.txt
Broken autoresponders should not be tolerated.
not always depend on the user disabling their account on the list server. I need a way for the list server to recoginize this looping is happening and take action.
considering that many of those broken autoresponders don't quote the original message, or use headers like in-reply-to and so forth, it's hard. The only thing that would always work would be to throttle the number of messages per user per unit of time and disable anyone who posts more than 5 times a minute let's say.
Marc
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