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Re: Stupid autoresponders!

To: Jaroslaw Rafa <raj@ap.krakow.pl>
Subject: Re: Stupid autoresponders!
From: Phil Dibowitz <phil@ipom.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 10:34:52 -0800
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On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 07:14:26PM +0100, Jaroslaw Rafa wrote:
> Hello all,
> I recently sent to the list my response to the "ssh from DHCP host"
> question, and got autoreplies from four people telling me that they are out
> of office (which I'm not interested at all, since I don't know them!).
> Moreover, I got also one autoreply requesting me to reply to it to verify
> "that I am a living human and not spam source". I consider this particularly
> stupid that someone sets up this kind of verification for a mailing list
> that he or she previously subscribed him/herself to.
> So here is my kind request to anybody who is setting up autoresponders: if
> you use this tool, learn how to use them properly, that is, set them up so
> that they don't reply to messages from mailing lists. Sending autoreplies to
> messages from mailing lists is considered bad netiquette. PERIOD.

I've already asked Darren to remove the "please verify me" person... about a
month ago.

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