From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Feb 3 19:24:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mobile.wemm.org (c1315225-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [65.0.135.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 992AF37B503 for ; Sat, 3 Feb 2001 19:23:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mobile.wemm.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f143Nqt01254; Sat, 3 Feb 2001 19:23:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Message-Id: <200102040323.f143Nqt01254@mobile.wemm.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 To: "David Schwartz" Cc: "Brett Glass" , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Conduct Unbecoming a Core Team Member In-Reply-To: Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2001 19:23:52 -0800 From: Peter Wemm Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "David Schwartz" wrote: > > > For several weeks now, a Core Team member whom I don't > > know personally -- one Peter Wemm -- appears to be engaging > > in a practice somewhere between spamming and mail bombing. > > Each time I post a message to any mailing list to which > > he happens to subscribes (including not only several FreeBSD > > lists but also some others), an autoresponder sends a copy > > of it back to me with a rude message plus reams of headers > > attached. (An example appears below.) > > IMO, regardless of who is doing it or why, autoresponding to posts to a > mailing list should be grounds for removal from that mailing list. > > DS For what it's worth, this is the procmail script I had. I dont believe it was mailbombing - no more than one reply for each message he sent me. :0 * ^From:.*brett@lariat.org | /home/peter/Mail/goaway.sh brett@lariat.org $ more ~/Mail/goaway.sh #! /bin/sh domain="your domain" (cat << EOF From: goaway@$domain To: $1 Subject: your email was received and ignored In case you dont get it, please go away and stop filling my mailbox! Your ignored email is appended below and being returned unread: --- EOF cat ) | sendmail -f nobody@$domain $1 In hindsight, I should have excluded stuff on the freebsd lists. I apologize for the inconvenience. I have disabled it completely. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message