On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 04:18:05PM -0600, John Nichel wrote: > Yes, it is really the end user's fault.
Kinda. But to be practical, in a world where "my mom" is starting to subscribe to mailing lists, the real bug here is to have a vacation program not ignore the "Precedence: bulk" that every sensible mailing list stamps on its messages. How many mailing lists am I on? I don't know. How many have changed their subscription procedures one of more times since I originally subscribed? Certainly more than one. How would I go about unsubscribing to each of them for a weekend? I don't know, and if I had to figure it out I would instead consider not going anywhere. This stuff needs to be easier to maintain, and a starting point would be to have autoresponders ignore bulk messages. Duh. Certainly, anyone vaguely techie and who has ever posted to a mailing list should think twice before turning on an autoresponder--but the autoresponder is still being stupid to pay attention to these bulk messages. The programmer who wrote it should *damn* well have considered the sorcerer's apprentice risks in such a tool and thought about them for a little tinnie weenie itsy bitsy moment before shipping it. -kb, the Kent who gets sick of some elitist nerds' reflex to never blame the tools if there might be any responsibility that should fall on the human. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
