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Author Re: [OT] Is there a policy regarding subscrjbers with challenge/respo nse mail filter
Offer Kaye

2005-06-06, 8:55 am

On 6/6/05, Daniel Kasak wrote:
> Thomas B=E4tzler wrote:
>=20

Yes, it does.
[color=darkred]
> There's no policy AFAIK, but I agree that it would be great to have one.
> Possibly we could also unsubscribe people who put a vacation message on
> their account?


I second that. Especially with regards to "anti-spam" messages. Those
are pure spam on a moderated mailing list.

--=20
Offer Kaye
Randal L. Schwartz

2005-06-06, 8:55 pm

>>>>> "Scott" == Scott E Robinson <scott.e.robinson@exxonmobil.com> writes:

Scott> Regarding the suggestion to unsubscribe folks who put vacation messages on
Scott> their account, I'm in a company which considers it very good practice to do
Scott> so. They don't actually require it, but it's expected. We use Lotus
Scott> Notes. I know there's a way to set up a rule that keeps certain e-mail
Scott> addresses from getting the vacation auto-reply, but that doesn't seem like
Scott> it would work for the Perl list, where so many different people are the
Scott> senders.

You shouldn't send a vacation reply when you aren't explicitly listed
in the headers. And you shouldn't *ever* send it to a list address.

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