Re: [exim] Out of Office and collateral spam

--On 21 December 2007 11:55:54 +0100 Renaud Allard <renaud@???>
wrote:

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> Ian Eiloart wrote:
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>> If I send you a message, and I get an auto-reply from you, of course
>> that's not spam. If I get 1000 autoreplies per day, in response to a
>> message that I didn't send, then that's spam.
>>
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> Even if I get 1 unique autoreply for a message I didn't send, it is still
> spam as it is still unsolicited and the message is still bulk.

I wouldn't argue with that. I was replying to the person who thought that
we were talking about replies to messages that you did send. I was using
large numbers for rhetorical effect.


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Ian Eiloart
IT Services, University of Sussex
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