From: Jay Hennigan (jay@west.net)
Date: Fri Feb 06 2004 - 02:14:35 GMT-3
People,
Please configure your auto-responders or mail systems not to send "vacation"
messages to those who post to the list. If you're a "cc" or a "bcc", don't
send a vacation message.
In fact, with the levels of forged spam and worms, "vacation" messages
are really just adding to the noise pollution. Please seriously consider
turning off all autoresponders or unsubscribing if you will be out of the
office. Every time I post here I wade through half a dozen emails that
appear to be personal replies but turn out to be vacation autoresponders.
And, the following is simply over the top! I have a feeling it relates
to a word in the subject line of the post to which I was responding.
The original subject referenced an access server whose parents were not
married. Puh-leeeze! The odds that truly offensive email has a forged
sender today are approaching certainty.
Bouncing mail with this type of filter response is just plain stupid.
Throw it on the floor or quarantine it, but don't auto-reply to the
purported sender.
Another pet peeve: Silly disclaimers on the bottom of mail sent to a
group discussion list about confidentiality that ramble on with half a
screen of legal mumbo-jumbo. Worse are thse who reply to the list and
include the stupid disclaimer. Turn it off, please. A mild example
follows:
NOTICE: This communication may contain confidential and/or privileged
information. If you are not the intended recipient, or believe that you
have received this communication in error, you are obligated to kill
yourself and anyone else who may have read it. So there. My disclaimer
is scarier than yours. Nyaah. You started this silly nonsense. Knock
it off and I will too, ok? It's worthless from a legal standpoint, makes
you look really clueless, and is a waste of CPU cycles. Nobody reads it
anyway. You're not actually reading this, are you? I didn't think so.
-- Jay Hennigan - CCIE #7880 - Network Administration - jay@west.net WestNet: Connecting you to the planet. 805 884-6323 WB6RDV NetLojix Communications, Inc. - http://www.netlojix.com/---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 23:54:40 -0500 From: System Attendant <ST-CROIX-SA@anvi.com> To: "'jay@west.net'" <jay@west.net> Subject: ScanMail Message: To Sender Match eManager setting and take actio n.
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