Re: [Plib-users] Mailbomb? was: Auto Reply to your message ...
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From: Steve B. <sjb...@ai...> - 2000-07-29 22:26:35
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Risto S Varanka wrote: > > > Some people, when going on holiday activate automatisms that > > answer e-mails with something like "I am on holiday, so dont expect a > > reply from me until I am back". This is what the message says (in > > German). Now you have to remember that e-mails you send to the list > > will be sent on to everyone on the list, including you. > > I would suppose all automated reply programs take this into > account - otherwise we would see much more of these cases, and in > my experience they are pretty rare. So I wonder how this happened > - somebody wrote their own script? :) > > Btw, one of the simplests solutions to this is to just unsubscribe > the person from the list. Sorry - I was out for a week at SigGraph and failed to nominate someone to look after the list in my absence. Typically the Sourceforge mailer sorts these things out and only the list admin (me) gets mailbombed. I think this is the first time it's ever happened to this list...and of course it *would* happen right when I was offline for a week! Unfortunately, about 40 people unsubscribed. Now I'll have to extract all their names and email them to tell them it's OK to come back again. :-( I've also mercilessly FLAMED the guy who did it and taken him off all of my mailing lists. -- Steve Baker HomeEmail: <sjb...@ai...> WorkEmail: <sj...@li...> HomePage : http://web2.airmail.net/sjbaker1 Projects : http://plib.sourceforge.net http://tuxaqfh.sourceforge.net http://tuxkart.sourceforge.net http://prettypoly.sourceforge.net |