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Let me also add another good rule... (Score:3, Insightful)
Maintain a db of addresses and do not auto-respond if the address already exists in the db.
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Re:Let me also add another good rule... (Score:4, Interesting)
- Never autorespond with a "from" equal to the address of the trigger.
Thus, when you send a message to merlyn@stonehenge.com, you get an auto response from merlyn's-answering-machine. And if you reply to that (broken autoresponder), you get a message from postmaster saying that's not a valid address. If you autorespond to that, only the duplicate address database prevents a re-response. But at that point, I now have a lot of ammunition for flaming the guy for being clueless.Reply to This
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Re:Let me also add another good rule... (Score:2)
the grass is always greener in hindsight (Score:3, Insightful)
Those rules have never been fully successful. There have always been newcomers who have not yet learned them, and who get heavily blasted the first time they transgress. They usually learn, but are replaced with the next beginners. Even if most newcomers find out in advance how to do the right thing without a public mistake, there have alway been some who didn't.
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Policy (Score:1)
If you autorespond to a mailing list I have control over, and I notice, you will be unsubscribed.
That is all.