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Subject: Re: autoresponders and vacation notices
From: "David W. Tamkin" <dattier @ ripco . com>
Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 23:20:41 -0500 (CDT)
To: list-managers @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: <20010504174808.F86822@ma-1.rootsweb.com> from "Tim Pierce" at May 04, 2001 05:48:08 PM

Tim Pierce wrote,

| The Berkeley `vacation' algorithm seems to
| have held up pretty well over the years: send an autoreply only if
|   (a) the recipient is personally listed in the `To' or `Cc' headers;
|   (b) the mail does not have a `Precedence' of `list', `bulk' or
| `junk'; and
|   (c) it doesn't come from an address that is likely to
| be a daemon, such as `mailer-daemon', `postmaster', `owner-' and
| `-request' addresses.

Isn't "the address to which the autoreply would be sent has not already
been sent a copy of the current autoreply text" part of the algorithm?




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