On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Crispin Cowan wrote: > "Squire, Jonathan" wrote: > > > how about just suspending them automagiclly for 7 days? Or offering a way > > for them to suspend themselves prior to vacation for X days? > > Nice idea, but not supported in software. We use mailman as a list manager, > and it has buttons for "no mail" (suspend indefinitely) and "unsubscribe". > It's a reasonable feature request, but we just use mailman, not support it. Yet Brutus has told you, [MailMan] is an honorable system... so are they all, all honorable systems (just kidding.) > Part of my mode of thought is that subscribing dumb vacation bots to large > lists is rude, and so I'm disinclined to go to a lot of effort to accomodate > the people that do it. There's lots of things I can do that involve a lot > of effort on my part, but that is unpopular with 9 out of 10 Crispie's :-) I've battled this problem before, with scripts and code and policies... the only sane thing to do is let them cancel and bounce (automatically or manually, once) a polite note explaining the problem that got them dropped and how to get back on. It IS rude, but it's usually unintentionally rude. Some companies even kick in the autoresponse automatically and the employee isn't fully aware what's going to happen. The admin at the company isn't either. > > Crispin > > -- > Crispin Cowan, Ph.D. > Chief Scientist, WireX Communications, Inc. http://wirex.com > Security Hardened Linux Distribution: http://immunix.org > Available for purchase: http://wirex.com/Products/Immunix/purchase.html Unsubscribe them, tell them why, problem solved. J. Melvin Jones |>------------------------------------------------------ || J. MELVIN JONES jmjonesat_private |>------------------------------------------------------ || Microcomputer Systems Consultant || Software Developer || Web Site Design, Hosting, and Administration || Network and Systems Administration |>------------------------------------------------------ || http://www.jmjones.com/ |>------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ linux-security-module mailing list linux-security-moduleat_private http://mail.wirex.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-security-module
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