At 10:08 AM -0700 1999/10/14, Doug wrote:
> It is cabable of that, but managing this on the scale we're
> talking about with the FreeBSD lists is just not an easy task. This idea
> has been proposed often, and always rejected by the very people you claim
> to want to help.
I can't speak for whether or not it is practical in the context
of the FreeBSD lists (I'm not the postmaster, after all), but I can
speak within my experience. [0]
> As much as I applaud any efforts to increase the level of user
> education, I have to say that I think an automated response just will not
> do.
IMO, if it's not an automated response, the rules won't be
implemented with any regularity, and the inappropriate questioners
will not learn.
You've got to set things up so that it is impossible for humans
to screw up this task, because they're not real good at following
precise recipes for exactly how to act, and reliably applying those
rules each and every time. However, computers *are* real good at
precisely these sorts of things.
If you don't automate it, it won't happen.
[0] I've been running mailing lists for a number of years, mostly
small ones with Majordomo, but also some larger ones with
industrial-strength tools such as Listserv.
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