Oh man! I would laugh but this is a sad situation... I am finding that filtering From addresses that have 'auautoresponder' and 'auto-responder' is helping a bit.
I don't want to refrain from sending mail to the list, or unsubscribe as this is one of those lists where I am trying to "give back", but that is exactly what I have been doing - e-mailing help individually, which means the rest of the group gets no benefit from my advice. Not that my advice is that great, but I'm here to help! Would the real list administrator Please Stand Up? This sucks. What makes it really bad is that this is the result of people coming here for help, and then carelessly ruining it for everybody else! You are scum! Short of using some kind of fabled "secure e-mail", perhaps one should only be able to post to this list if a certain ASCII key is in the subject line. It wouldn't ever have to change or be secret, why would an auto-responder ever use it? It could be made well-known that if you don't include the string XXXXXKJH in the subject line of your mail to any lists.php.net address, the mail server just tosses it into the bit-bucket where it belongs! I haven't sat here and thought out all of the raramifications of such a scheme, but I imagine it wouldn't be hard to implement, and there is no reason why someone would ever desire to build it into their majordomo, so it wouldn't ever have to change. Anybody else care to comment on that idea? CM --- John Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > See what I mean!!! > > -----Original Message----- > From: papastdueaearthlinket > [mamailtoapastdueaearthlinket] > Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 2:56 AM > To: John Holden > Subject: RE: [PHPHPNSTALL] fight the auautoresponders> (KMKMM831733V65979L0KM) > > > Dear John, > > Thank you for your reply. > > We are sorry to inform you that we are unable to > distinguish the actual > issue you are experiencing. > > However, if the issue is related to PHPHP> installation, we are sorry to inform > you that EaEarthLinkoes not support issues related > to the installations. > > If you have a domain hosted with EaEarthLinkith > which you are experiencing > issue, please get back to us with the domain name so > that we can assist you > further. > > We appreciate your patience and understanding in > this regard. > > Allie J 2319 > EaEarthLinklectronic Customer Support > EaEarthLinkInc. > Case ID 37491356 > > Tired of Spam? 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It's a noble > effort, but seems to be a futile one. > > Best, > John > > -----Original Message----- > From: Cool Moe [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2004 9:42 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [PHPHPNSTALL] fight the auautoresponders> > > I really hate that I have to reply to people > directly, > due to the crcraploadf auautorespondersso I've taken > to harassing the owners of them on their own > websites. > > > Check it, I posted the following on this messages > board: > hthttp/wwwwwoworkerscompensationom/cgcgiin/teteemzeteemzgcgioard=_master&for > um=WoWorkersCompensationcomWhats_New_and_Notable&topic=13 > > Hello, > > The e-mail address [EMAIL PROTECTED] > is subscribed to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] > mailing > list. Every time anyone posts, we get around twenty > auto responder messages from e-mail addresses like > yours that were subscribed and forgotten about. > Please ununsubscriberom the list, or turn off your > auto-responder, as you are filling our mailboxes > with > trash. > > Thanks > CM > > Now, if everybody else here were to pick just one of > those goddamn auto-responders and put in a little > effort towards coercing them to ununsubscribewe > might > get somewhere. > > But it won't ever stop until some useless list admin > decides to be useful, as these auto-responders are > rendering our mailing list (a public service that at > one point they must have utilized themselves) nearly > useless. > > CM > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! SiSiteBuilder Free web site building tool. > Try it! > hthttp/wewebhostingahoo.com/pspsbsb > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. 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