On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, ABrady wrote: > On Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:07 -0500 > "Joe Mozelesky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If anyone finds themselves in a situation such as Jacob's, in addition > > to setting your vacation message you can then go to > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list, login at the > > bottom, and change your subscription settings to temporarily suspend > > mail delivery. > > > > This will save a great deal of frustration and preclude having to deal > > with vacation messages getting spammed to the list. > > It can help to avoid other unintended consequences, too. > > I use getmail, which lets me delete mail at the server based on certain > rules. An "out-of-office" bot sending it to mailing lists will get one > added to the list. Once added, forever added. > > That simply means, once someone does this, I'll never see their mail > again unless they change email addresses. Not that anybody cares whether > I read their email or not, but if they come up with a question later, > and I'm the only one that knows an answer (i.e. some hardware thingy), > too bad.
i would go one step further -- i'm putting his entire domain (which is apparently just a credit union) on my blacklist. it's not so much that one individual who's to blame, but his mail admin, who failed to set up their mail system in a reasonable way. even worse, i earlier tried to email "postmaster" at that domain. that email was rejected, saying that postmaster was an unknown user. any organization whose mail admin doesn't have the decency to set up a postmaster email address deserves to have the entire domain blacklisted. rday -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
