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Article #7004Re: mailing lists and vacation programs
From: Jef Poskanzer
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1990 17:15
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1990 17:15
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There are quite a few versions of "vacation" and vacation-like programs.
And yes, a lot of them do reply to messages from mailing lists even though
they shouldn't. Hell, lots of them aren't even smart enough to keep a
list of people already notified, or to add a header line marking the
message as coming from a vacation program, let alone not reply to a
message so marked.
When I send out a digest and get a vacation message back, I send mail
to the vacationer and the site's postmaster letting them know that the
version of vacation they are using is not acceptable. And if I get a
second vacation message from that site, I remove it from my mailing list.
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Jef
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