Fw: [Mailman-Developers] Re: [Mailman-Announce] Announcing Mailman 2.0 beta 6

[Chuq Von Rospach]

At 5:54 PM +0200 9/24/00, Thomas Wouters wrote:
>]There's a *lot* of vacation-like stuff out there that doesn't include the
>original message (or even something that identifies the message, like the
>subject or any of the mail headers!)

that's true, but it's a start. And more importantly, it catches the 
worst offenders, which are the ones most likely to start the 
1000-messages-in-an-hour mail loops.

My policy is that anyone who's mailbot blats at a list or at someone 
who posts to a list is dropped from the list when I see it, and that 
helps convince people to fix them next time. I'm not *as* worried 
about the once-in-a-while vacation message (although they're very 
irritating to me and many users, and a huge waste of resource) as I 
am the ones that aren't smart enough not to respond to themselves and 
start disasterous mail loops.

You won't find 100% solutions for these, but there are things you can 
do to catch many of them.

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Chuq Von Rospach - Plaidworks Consulting (mailto:chuqui@plaidworks.com)
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And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar
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