my protest

[Doug Yanega]

Julian Humphries wrote:

>>Most significantly, however, is that it is configured this way NOT to
>>prevent accidental personal messages, but to prevent those godawful
>>automated "out-of-office" and other bounceback notices from being posted to
>
>Um, I don't think that argument holds water, otherwise every poster would
>get those kind of messages whenever somebody has an autoresponder on, and I
>don't think that happens, at least I don't remember getting such drivel.

We don't get that sort of stuff because we're apparently lucky to not have
had anyone with an autoresponder lately. Every time I post to Ecolog-L and
Bugnet (two lists configured the same way as Taxacom), I get bouncebacks,
but only to me personally, and not to the list. Configured the way Bill
wants, then the burden would be on the list manager to spot any bouncebacks
and remove that subscriber *immediately*. Worse for everyone involved.

Peace,


Doug Yanega        Dept. of Entomology         Entomology Research Museum
Univ. of California - Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521
phone: (909) 787-4315 (standard disclaimer: opinions are mine, not UCR's)
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