Re: Death of news.mozilla.org

"J. P. Gilliver (John)" <[email protected]> Mon, 29 Mar 2021 01:00:00 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.general
Organization 255 software
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, 28 Mar 2021 at 19:20:01, Wolf K <[email protected]> wrote (my =

responses usually follow points raised):
>On 2021-03-28 18:34, The Real Bev wrote:
>> WTF?=A0 Why me?=A0 What idiot has some sort of automatic response to =

>>posts  in moz.gen?
>>  Every single time I post into this group I get the following message =

>>from
>>   [email protected]
[]
>I got it too. Now there will likely be another one.....
>
Ditto (including to the "Now there ...").

We've had something similar before: I think it's that somehow, =

deliberately or accidentally, some address of a company has been signed =

up to the mailing-list version of this 'group, set to send individual =

posts rather than daily or weekly digest; the result being whenever =

anyone posts, the company gets an email, "from" the poster, and their =

system automatically responds, to the person.

Last time, they stopped after a while; this time, presumably, they'll =

stop on the 3rd if they haven't fixed it before then.
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Norman Tebbitt has the irritating quality of being much nicer in person than
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