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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Out of office/vacation messages
On Thu, 25 Dec 2003 14:18:46 -0600 "Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr." <[email protected]> wrote: > Mark Prior wrote: > > > > Why do so many supposedly clueful people have their vacation message > > system respond to mailing list email? > > > > Now I'll get to see who also doesn't keep a list of addresses that have > > already been sent the out of office message :-) > Among the ones I found when I looked into the question with some > rigor a few years ago were that mailing list traffic often no longer > has a useful "precedence" value that was used to screen such mail. nanog has a clear Precedence: bulk line in the header which is the defacto standard for handling this, so that can't be it. i think it's basically clueless IT staffs trying to reinvent a wheel that's been invented, usually badly, billions and billions of times over the past 30 or so years. richard -- Richard Welty [email protected] Averill Park Networking 518-573-7592 Java, PHP, PostgreSQL, Unix, Linux, IP Network Engineering, Security
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