On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 04:54:25PM +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: > Ordinary SPAM/UCE looks exactly like that. Please put in your real > name and explain a bit more about the bot. Consider setting the > reply-to header to point to the redhat-list-request address. Thats an excellent suggestion, thank you.
> D'oh. I'm not even subscribed to redhat-install-list. If you planned We know. you are subbed to the RedHat List. The D'oh isn't necessary. > to run that bot on psyche-list and valhalla-list as well, would you > add URLs for all those lists? How about making the bot send out > specific instructions for a specific list? Actually that is in the works and was planned from the beginning of the expansion to other RedHat Lists. Its another good idea. > Ah, I see. Thanks for explaining that. Another point where your > concept didn't work, unfortunately. Your bot sent a _private_ mail > which either makes it into my inbox or gets filtered out into trash, > but your update announcements and explanations go to the list and > are buried somewhere beneath hundreds of messages. How am I supposed > to know all this? I didn't subscribe to any of your services. It is The concept works fine and has for over a year. You're missing the point. You were never supposed to receive the email at all. An error I made in a procmail script affected this email function causing everyone who posted to the RH list to get emailed. It looks like a total of 88 people got hit. > either. At least you could have excused in a _personal_ mail to > those 80 subscribers. THAT would have been an appropriate move. I apologized publicly because there discussion about it on the list. This way everyone who was affected, which included everyone on the list at that point, would receive the apology and the explanation. I hoped that would clear up the situation quickly. > And to make it clear, the idea is good, but the message looks like > SPAM/UCE and the weak explanation is a hell of confusion for someone That message has been in place and working well for over a year in other lists and for over 3 weeks in this list (up till yesterday anyway... ). In fact it is in place right now. > who did just reply to a message with unsubscribe in the subject > line. Shouldn't be too hard to make it more personal. Also, it > doesn't explain unsubscription via e-mail at all. Trust me - we've tried and the people who need this level of help can't handle doing it by email. They need immediate visual feedback. (Trust you, Jeff? You just screwed up. Why should we trust you ? hmmm - you have a point ... :-) ) -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" copyright 2003. Use is restricted. Any use is an acceptance of the offer at http://users.rcn.com/jkinz/policy.html. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
