samba - Jun 2011 - Braindead Autoreply filters...

On 2011-06-10 2:00 PM, Doug Lytle <support at drdos.info>
wrote:
> Ryan Novosielski wrote:
>> It's not clear to me... are ALL autoresponders
"braindead" or are there
>> some that don't notice it's a mailing list contacting them?
> Some auto-responders look at the to: field and if it's not directly
sent
> to the recipient's address (i.e. samba at lists.samba.org) then it
won't
> respond.
That is just one of many criteria a non-brain-dead auto-responder uses
to decide when it will or will not reply to an email...

The presence of any one of a dozen or so headers (list-*,
precedence-bulk, etc) should not trigger a reply. Also, it should only
reply once to the same sender within a given time period (RFC suggests 7
days, but our boss insists on 24 hours.

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Best regards,

Charles

On 2011-06-11 2:00 PM, "David Magda" <dmagda at ee.ryerson.ca>
wrote:
> On Thu, June 9, 2011 09:46, Charles Marcus wrote:
>> It would be nice if one of the list moms would immediately unsubscribe
>> AND PERMANENTLY BAN idiots who use braindead autoreply filters.
>>
>> This should be official list policy for ALL email lists...
> Except some people don't have a choice in what mail server they can
use.
> They're punished because someone in their IT department made a decision
> which they had no input in?
Absolutely - that's better than punishing the thousands of subscribers
to all of the mail lists they are on by having to see their brain dead
auto-replies to every message to the list.

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Best regards,

Charles