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Subject: vacation autoresponders
From: Bill Houle <bhoule @ conveyanced . com>
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 22:30:06 -0700
To: list-managers @ greatcircle . com

I was just about to turn on my procmail-based vacation autoresponder when I
decided to check first which senders might theoretically get bombarded with
such messages. We all know what trouble a poorly done vacation program can
cause, so I thought I'd look first. My program:

ignores mailer daemons
ignores Precedence bulk/junk
ignores loops to myself
and only responds if To/Cc me

This mimics the Berkeley vacation program and in theory should be pretty
darn safe. But I found a number of "mailing lists" that would get hit.
These lists insist on addressing directly to me (instead of a list address)
and do not utilize Precedence headers. My question: is this a "they screwed
up" situation, or is there something else I could be doing to be more
net-friendly?

--bill




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