On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 04:18:25PM +0200, Mathias Homann wrote:
Am Sonntag, 24. Oktober 2004 13:26 schrieb Carlos E. R.:
The problem is that some times (like now) the "from" address of the bot is not subscribed... making it quite difficult to find out which address is really receiving the list and forwarding to the bot or so.
best idea would be:
1. change the way the list is managed, so that a simple reply to a mail does NOT confirm a subscription. Generate some dynamical link instead that the user has to follow or something like that. That way, nobody can just subscribe some weird autoreplying bots to the list via the web frontend.
2. send a message to all the subscribers explaining the reasons for step 3.
3. empty the subscription list.
that way, it would be close to impossible to subscribe a bot, and the people who actually care about getting the list will most probably also like the idea of getting rid of bots&bounces more than they dislike to have to subscribe again.
This is really not the case for this problem, since the autoresponder was most likely subscribed by a system administrator knowingly. Ciao, Marcus