• Reported by liorean

Sorry for ranting, but I just felt this needed to be said.

If you're gonna have to use autoresponders, real-live-human-being-and-not-spam-source verifiers etc, then make sure they behave well. If you can't make them behave you should disable them, as they then only contribute to the overall spam. One thing you should make sure, to maximum extent possible, is that it doesn't send anything automatically to any mailing lists you happen to be subscribed to. If you're not personally in control of the autoresponder, then there's probably somebody you can contact that has control over it. For all it's worth, you could point them here, though I probably forget some things in this listing...

Here's a short list of things that the autoresponder should do to behave well:

• ONLY send the autoreply if your email address is in the to or cc headers of the message. Any mail where that is not true is with high probability sent from an automatic system, such as a mailing list, and then any autoresponse message is not desireable.

• DON'T send the autoreply if the message has any list-* header or any other header or header/value combo that is specific to automatic mailing systems.

• If a message has a reply-to header, then send to that address and not the address in the from header.

Thank you for listening. I'll get back to addressing the comments on my OOJS entry shortly.