list usage: autoreply?

[Marc Haber]

On Mon, 18 Oct 1999 18:54:03 -0500 (CDT), you wrote:
>On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Duke Senter wrote:
>> I recall a few weeks (months?) ago when someone went on vacation and =
his
>> auto-reply kept being sent to this list.
>
>Apparently, his was replying to "Reply-To" instead of to "From".  If it
>sends to From, it only sends the message to the sender and not to the
>list.  Replying to From is better than replying to Reply-To, but it's
>still very annoying.

ack.

BTW, this is one of the reasons why setting "Reply-To: " to the
mailing list is considered harmful by most mailing list admins.

>> I'm going on vacation soon, and am going to use the autoreply
>> out-of-office deal/thingy and didn't want to flood everyone's mailbox
>> gloating that I am taking a break while they are slaving away.  Is
>> this possible, or will I be uncerimoniously barred from the list if I
>> turn auto-gloat on?
>
>What you really should do is set your list subscription to 'no mail' =
while
>you're away.  I'm not sure how that's done on this system.  Maybe =
someone
>else will tell us.

Non-broken E-Mail systems will not send any auto-replies for messages
that carry "Precedence: bulk" in the header. Most mailing lists,
including this one, do have that header. So, using any non-broken
E-Mail system will assure that vacation notices won't get either to
the list nor to the list owner.

Greetings
Marc

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