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Re: Out of office/vacation messages

  • From: Valdis.Kletnieks
  • Date: Wed Dec 31 01:31:53 2003 
On Thu, 25 Dec 2003 15:03:39 +1030, Mark Prior <[email protected]>  said:
> Why do so many supposedly clueful people have their vacation message 
> system respond to mailing list email?

Because it's *impossible* to get one of the most popular MUAs to understand
that mail with an SMTP MAIL FROM 'owner-*@*' shouldn't be replied to.

So it's just a special case of "why do clueful people use software from that
vendor"?.  And since it's the holidays, let's just leave it at that.

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