Re: Automatic responses to mails sent to debian-kde@lists.debian.org
On Fri, 31 May 2002, Wolfgang Ratzka wrote:
> Am Freitag, 31. Mai 2002 22:49 schrieb Fred K Ollinger:
>
> >
> > I agree. This is unethical. So is sending spam. I suggest that one would
> > send two copies of spam back for each copy recieved. This is not as
> > unethical b/c one was spammed and one is only returning the favor. If the
> > spammer is manually sending out emails and gets a few replies back then
> > this won't cause any trouble. But if one sends out unsolicited mail to a
> > few million people and they get a few million back then they get what they
> > dished out, tit for tat. If you are the only one sending mail back then
> ^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> The problem is, that you can never be sure whether your "retribution" will
> actually hit the right person. So you might fry some poor sys admin
> who has enough trouble with his clueless users anyway ;-).
>
> So apparently <alexander@wizard.koenig.su> has subscribed to the mailing
> list and has set up some smart-ass filter tool that blocks traffic from
> the mailing list produces these silly automatic responses...
>
> In this case the best solution would be for some list admin to remove
> <alexander@wizard.koenig.su>
> from the mailing list.
We don't have any subscriptions from that domain even, so unless someone
shows headers with more information, there's very little that we can do.
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