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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 2003-12-25, Stephane Bortzmeyer <[email protected]> wrote: >> There are several other tests to perform (if you are a reasonable >> program, that is), before sending an "Out of the office" message. An >> obvious one is to see wether your human owner is mentioned in the To: >> field. Unless the list explodes the messages in one explicit copy per >> recipient, this is enough. * [email protected] (Suresh Ramasubramanian) [Fri 26 Dec 2003, 02:01 CET]: > Of course, that doesn't work with a list that doesn't set reply-to the list. > > A lot of followups on nanog are reply-all, cc'd to the OP and anybody > else who posted to a thread. Why would you enable O-o-O autoreplies if you're actively participating in a thread on a mailing list? (Stepping over the obvious question - why would you enable them in the first place, knowing that it annoys the hell out of a lot of people) -- Niels.
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