Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Monday 2006-03-27 at 12:54 -0500, ken wrote:
A second, derivative point (pertaining to instructions and documentation on this issue): Isn't it silly to configure the list server so that replies go to the poster and then ask each and every user to run through special instructions and documentation, then change to a different email client and/or change how their client works just to defeat that list configuration?
Not really. Just because a majority (not in linux mail servers, by the way) do it the other way, doesn't make it right :-P
Think. An example. Somebody on this list, goes on vacation and set up an autoresponder (I'll be out of the office till...). The list keeps sending him his email, his autoresponder will respond to the list, the list will forward that to him again... we get an endless loop, thousands of emails sent to everybody. But, as there is no reply-to, that will not happen here.
Yes as so many have said before but with all the configurations that can be made in Linux I do not believe that the suse mailserver could not be made to either block autoresponder messages or to unsubscribe a person who sends one to the list. My 2c's -- ======================================================================== Hylton Conacher - Linux user # 229959 at http://counter.li.org Currently using SuSE 9.2 Professional with KDE ========================================================================