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brad@looking.on.ca writes:
   I have discovered that if you manage a mailing list, you are bound to
   get a lot of these replies, and it's costly and annoying.  Is there
   any special header that any of them support to stop the flow?

The semi-standard "vacation" that comes with sendmail will not respond
if the address from which the note comes is *-request*, or if there is
a header "Precedence: bulk" or "Precedence: junk" present.

Make sure your list goes out with one or both of these attributes and
you'll get surprisingly few vacation notes.

Of course, convincing list maintainers to make sure that lists are
properly managed for these features is darn near impossible.

--karl
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Nihil carborundum illegitimus.
Yes, it's an "I've got an attitude about the users" sort of week:
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the length of the time spent at the institution."  --Placeway's Maxim