Admin: Autoresponders and lists

This is an administrative note.   Sorry that this always come in the
form of scolds, but I guess that is when these notes are needed.

Those of you who don't use autoresponders can ignore this message.

Those of you who use autoresponders, but use them in a list-friendly
way can ignore this message.

List subscribers who use some kind of autoresponder (eg, out-of-office,
vacation, anti-spam challenge/response systems) need to configure their
systems to behave appropriately when getting mailing list message.  As
it happens, I actually have a rant about this at

  http://www.goldmark.org/netrants/auto-resp/

on the topic, but it hasn't been updated to address the question of
anti-spam challenge/response systems, which are spreading.

I will have to remove addresses from the list if their autoresponders
continue to behave obnoxiously to list posters.

Oh, and sorry for my long absence in dealing with admin things.  I'll
try to start to try to begin to take on my responsibilities again.

Cheers,

-j

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Jeffrey Goldberg                        http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/