What can I do about users with broken autoresponders?
(taken from the Mailman Wiki entry by Greg Ward) A common problem on mailing lists is users who have setup an “autoresponder”, or software that automatically responds to all mail for them, that doesn’t understand mailing lists. Autoresponders are most commonly used for “I’m on vacation”-style messages, but they might also be seen bouncing mail that appears to be spam or virus-infected. There are varying degrees of broken-ness, but there do not appear to be any limits on the stupidity of broken auto-responders. The least harmful kind of stupid auto-responder is one that replies to the list administrator — eg. if you are running foo-list@example.com, you keep getting “I’m on vacation” messages from one of your list members at foo-list- admin@example.com. The problems here might be 1) the user did not configure her autoresponder to exclude mailing lists, and 2) the autoresponder doesn’t have a rate-limiting feature (eg. “Only send an automatic response to each sender once per day”). In t
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