Dear Nick and all, If you receive mails from autoresponders, you can let us know at <comms@ripe.net> and we will ask the relevant parties to change their mail settings. Best regards, Fergal Cunningham Membership Communications Officer RIPE NCC On 27/05/16 11:57, Nick Hilliard wrote:
Elvis Daniel Velea wrote:
So, I think it's time we propose and vote to give the RIPE NCC the mandate to really maintain this mailing list and forcefully unsubscribe the bots and auto-responders.
the NCC staff already do this. No need for votes or resolutions.
There are a couple of problems:
1. you can't tell in advance which email addresses are connected to autoresponders and which aren't. People add autoresponder email addresses to the list over time, so if you have a period where there is little or no email traffic to the mailing list, the list will end up with a bunch of autoresponders
2. most of the autoreplies go to the people who post to the list, so the RIPE NCC staff don't have visibility into who's autoresponding.
3. Some people sign up full-blown ticketing systems, like servicedesk@mew.gov.kw. This is frustrating because it poops replies to the list address instead of the sender.
4. the email addresses that the bounces come from are not necessarily the email addresses signed up to the list. I.e. tracing can be hard.
The NCC staff can only react to this problem, and mostly only when posters inform them about what email addresses are sending out bounces.
If you post to the list and get a bunch of autoreplies, the best thing is to email the RIPE NCC mailing list admin directly so that they can do something about it. If members-discuss-owner@ripe.net isn't the best address to use, maybe someone from the NCC can clarify what address would be appropriate.
Nick
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