Dear all, On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 11:17:06AM -0700, Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. wrote:
Either Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez' office is on the NANOG list or someone is forwarding NANOG email to AOC's press office (in which case either spoofed as the original sender or AOC's office sends an ack to every email address it can find)..as I received this auto-ack in response to my email to to the list.
Anyone have any insight into this?
The NANOG Mailing-list usage guidelines prohibit auto-reponse postings to the list or to other users: https://www.nanog.org/resources/usage-guidelines/ The mailing list admin team (admins@nanog.org) can take action to prevent auto-responders decrease the signal to noise ratio. As multiple users have now made a report about an auto-responder, I'm sure the issue will be resolved soon.
And either way, what is the policy about forwarding list email to someone who is not on the list?
The NANOG mailing list is a so-called 'public' mailing list. Emails send to the list are distributed to all subscribed email addresses, and in addition to such this distribution, list postings archived at a publicly accessible location for anyone prefering to use a web browser: https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/ It is possible for users to distribute NANOG mailing list postings through other means, such as additional forwarding and archiving (example: https://marc.info/?l=nanog) The NANOG mailing list AUP does not prohibit forwarding of emails which were sent to NANOG the list to people not on the list. Kind regards, Job