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Fergal Cunningham
fergalc at ripe.net
Fri May 27 12:22:31 CEST 2016
Dear Nick and all, If you receive mails from autoresponders, you can let us know at <comms at 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 at 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 at ripe.net isn't the best > address to use, maybe someone from the NCC can clarify what address > would be appropriate. > > Nick > > ---- > If you don't want to receive emails from the RIPE NCC members-discuss > mailing list, please log in to your LIR Portal account and go to the general page: > https://lirportal.ripe.net/general/ > > Click on "Edit my LIR details", under "Subscribed Mailing Lists". From here, you can add or remove addresses. >
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