[svlug] OT: vacation responses to list mail

[Karsten M. Self]

I've just received several 'vacation' message responses to mail posted
to SVLUG.

If you're going to use an autoresponder, please configure it properly.
This means setting it up not to respond to non-personal mail (do you
really want to broadcast to the world that you are out of town for a
week).  If even a small fraction of a typical mailing list sets up such
autoresponders, any post to the list is responded to by a flurry of "I'm
out of the office" messages.  Annoying at the very least, and utterly
unnecessary.

I bounce such messages to the abuse@ address for the domain in
question.  If that message bounces, I forward the bounce to RFC-Ignorant
(http://www.rfc-ignorant.org/) for listing.  Repeat offenses are treated
as, and responded to as, spam.

The original offender is added to my local blacklist -- their messages
are rejected from my inbox.

A similar rationale, and response applies to anti-virus autoresponder
systems.  

Peace.

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