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• At least one annoying p5p subscriber does this. (Score:1)

  by sky (1411)

  merlyn [perl.org] does this, but not only when he is on vacation, but once every month you happen to reply to a thread he has been involved with.

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  • Re:At least one annoying p5p subscriber does this. (Score:1)

    by ethan (3163)

    Ah, good you warned me.
    
    Well, Randal, you heard it: no more CCs from me. :-)
  • Re:At least one annoying p5p subscriber does this. (Score:2)

    by merlyn (47)

    I respond monthly with a FAQ-pointer to non-bulk email that has my name explicitly in the headers, and always reply from a distinct email address that's trivial to filter.

    Note the four conditions. Also note that it's not what was claimed.

    I am still not clear about why having a FAQ-pointer response to mail addressed directly to me that appears only once a month is considered harmful. It's not list mail. It's only direct mail. You don't want it? Fine. Remove my name from the header of the p5p email,

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    • Randal L. Schwartz
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    • Re:At least one annoying p5p subscriber does this. (Score:1)

      by ethan (3163)

      Also note that it's not what was claimed.
      
      Right, it isn't. Note that I was stupid: Since I never so far received any of these FAQ-pointers (and Arthur mentioned it in the context of vacation-autoresponders), I somehow deduced that you'd send out mails telling people about your vacational status.
      
      Glad to hear you don't. :-)
• Autoresponders to list email is worse (Score:2)

  by merlyn (47)

  I get these from time to time. They aren't filtering on "bulk" like they should. I always ensure that they get booted from the lists.

  Interesting that there's a parallel thread here to my own properly-constructed autoreponder. {grin}

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