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RE: [cobalt-security] autoresponders from hell



Nick,

Many companies have bad auto-responders.

Take EasySpace - a huge company.

One of my clients set up an auto-responder. Of course their system emailed
him automatically about 5 times for each of his domains that needed
renewing. His auto-responder replied. EasySpace then sent two back, one with
a ticket, the other with an FAQ. Those two got an auto-responder each.. Over
24 hours... well... 72,000 messages built up.

Even the biggest of companies can have this sort of bad configuration...

:-(



-----Original Message-----
From: cobalt-security-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:cobalt-security-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Drage,
Nicholas
Sent: 20 June 2001 11:58
To: 'cobalt-security@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: RE: [cobalt-security] autoresponders from hell


> I've noticed this problem before, but this is getting
> ridiculous. Everyone, please use alternative email addresses to subscribe
to
> mailing lists or just don't use auto-responders! Can someone write this
into all
> the list FAQs?
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