On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 06:59, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Duncan Lithgow wrote: > > > Instructions on unsubscribing are at the end of each email - thanks > > here's a humbly-tendered suggestion that would reduce the irrelevant > postings to red hat lists, and save everyone a lot of grief from the > periodic flame wars. > > wouldn't it be just ducky if red hat were to put some front-end > processing on their end to catch stuff like "unsubscribe" or > "unsuscribe" subject lines, and simply auto-respond with a message to > the effect that, "you are clearly trying to unsubscribe. here's how > to do it...". so we don't have to see stuff like this anymore. > > and how about, "this is the red hat mailing list auto-responder. you > have submitted a posting in HTML. HTML is strongly discouraged on red > hat mailing lists. please resubmit your posting in plain text. > here's how to do that, depending on your emailer ..." > > and continuing along this line, "your posting has been rejected by the > red hat mail system because it: > > 1) has a blank subject > 2) has a meaningless subject "HELP!!!" (that sort of thing) > 3) etc, etc, etc. > > i can't imagine this would be all that difficult. is there any reason > this can't be done? > > rday > > "this is the red hat mailing list auto-responder. our filtering > software has detected that you have responded by top posting rather > than bottom posting. your post has been rejected and, in addition, > guido and lorenzo will be by to see you later today to slap some sense > into you. have a nice day." Actually there seem to be any number of "auto-responders" when such messages are sent out. :) -- Scot L. Harris webid@xxxxxxxxxx Remember -- only 10% of anything can be in the top 10%.
