OoO spam loop (was: Re: [hobbit] Away From Office (was: [hobbit] Away From Office...) 🔗 link

On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 19:40, Callahan, Tom <user-16f19114071e@xymon.invalid>
wrote:

Can you please STOP this email....

Sadly, only the list administrator can stop the email.  In the
meantime, just create a rule in your mail client/software to black
hole all email from Steve (sorry Steve, but you brought this on
yourself).

On the "bright" side, eventually Steve's mailbox should fill up and
he'll stop receiving email, and so stop sending them every 10 minutes.
 Somebody could always try contacting Gail Barnett and ask them to
step on Steve's email if the list administrator doesn't get to it.

--
Rob MacGregor
 Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he
 doesn't become a monster. Friedrich Nietzsche

On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 08:33:14PM +0100, Rob MacGregor wrote:

On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 19:40, Callahan, Tom <user-16f19114071e@xymon.invalid> wrote:

Can you please STOP this email....

Sadly, only the list administrator can stop the email

Henrik Stoerner <user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid> a écrit :

On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 19:40, Callahan, Tom <user-16f19114071e@xymon.invalid> wrote:  > > Can you please STOP this email....  > > Sadly, only the list administrator can stop the email  

Steve has been unsubscribed now, and I'll block all mail from him for the next 48 hours. That should put an end to his ooo-mails.

Everyone else ... either unsubscribe from the mailing list while you're on holiday, or configure your out-of-office daemon to NOT reply to
mails sent to the mailing list. This was a particularly bad example of
not doing so, but there are a handful every year where people send
out-of-office mails to the list.


Henrik

On Sun, June 22, 2008 17:35, Henrik Stoerner wrote:

Everyone else ... either unsubscribe from the mailing list while you're
on holiday, or configure your out-of-office daemon to NOT reply to
mails sent to the mailing list. This was a particularly bad example of
not doing so, but there are a handful every year where people send
out-of-office mails to the list.

user-24d6f8323faa@xymon.invalid> wrote:

On Sun, June 22, 2008 17:35, Henrik Stoerner wrote:

Everyone else ... either unsubscribe from the mailing list while you're
on holiday, or configure your out-of-office daemon to NOT reply to
mails sent to the mailing list. This was a particularly bad example of
not doing so, but there are a handful every year where people send
out-of-office mails to the list.

Of course, this is partially self-inflicted by this mailing list using a
Reply-To targeting the list address, which creates the ricochet effect
without the offender having been clueless enough to set the OOO for "Reply
All"....

On most of the large lists I subscribe to, I'll get an out of office or
two with every other post.  But because they're only going to the From:
address, the impact is limited to the poster rather than spraying the
entire list.  Just pointing that out; whether or not to configure a list
this way is a religious argument....

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-----Original Message-----
From: Rich Smrcina [mailto:user-cf452ff334e0@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Tuesday, 24 June 2008 6:29 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] OoO spam loop (was: Re: [hobbit] Away From

Office

I concur, hitting reply shouldn't send the response to the person, it
should go to the list.

Scott just needs to fix his ooo responder.

Josh Luthman wrote:

I really like the reply-to being user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
though I can't say I am on too many mailing lists, neither of which
are
very sizable.

Josh Luthman
Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
XXXX Wayne St
Suite XXXX
Troy, OH XXXXX

Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it,
poorly.
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