[09.09.2012 05:01] [j debert]:
In re vacation autoresponders:
Generally it's the user who is to blame for sending vacation/out-of-office autoreplies. Even half-assed autoresponders have it together enough to have the either the user-settable option of not responding to list traffic or know what a list is and suppress autoresponses. It's the user's responsibility to properly configure his autoresponder so that it suppresses unwanted traffic, such as that to lists.
Sometimes a user will come across some old, stupid vacation script in a book and thinks how cool it would be to roll his own but fails to consider the havoc wrought by a script that reponds to _every_ mail message received.
Sometimes the user reads the mail with his company's mail account. He has to use his company's autoresponder then. Since there is no "set on hold" and "restart delivering" on the vast majority of mailing lists I read, I have two choices when I go into holiday: unsubscribe from all the mailing list an re-subscribe afterwards or not using an autoresponder. I decided for the latter, but it's annoying for the colleagues who sent mails and do not get any reaction. So I understand those who use "vacation". Of course, it's right that autoresponders should not answer to mailing lists. However, the bigger a company's mailing solution is, the less is the probability that the autoresponder acts properly :-\
If an autoresponder spews to a list, tell the sender to fix it or else be unsubscribed. Then follow through.
Ha. How will a single user get the management to pay a bazillion of $currency to upgrade the company's mailing system to a working solution? The management does not subscribe to mailing lists, they don't give a damn. Everything else is a miracle that will sure run through several IT news feeds ;-) I subscrbed to *this* list with a non-company mail address. But the mail system that handles it is not mine, a and I can't do anything to (or with) the autoresponder (I even do not know what they use). The mail domain email.de is hosted by web.de, a company that belongs to united internet AG, see http://www.united-internet.de/BrandsWebde?__language=en_EN. Their hotline is so dumb, they don't even know what an autoresponder is... Regards, Werner -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org