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Subject: Re: list policies about vacation programs
From: The Rick of RixLists <rick @ rixlists . com>
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 17:50:51 -0400
To: listmanagers <list-managers @ greatcircle . com>
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References: <Pine.OSX.4.56.0308131028470.516@betty.goldmark.private><6.0.0.10.0.20030813075308.046d67a0@127.0.0.1><6.0.0.10.0.20030813075308.046d67a0@127.0.0.1>

Is it possible that the header information might be inviting the "on Vacation" message?

I spoke with one systems administrator who said that my messages were being received with  PRECEDENCE=NORMAL, and the sysadmin uses that to gauge who gets an auto-responder.

If messages arrive with PRECEDENCE=LIST or PRECEDENCE=BULK then their system is set to NOT auto-respond.  I have since configured my list as PRECEDENCE=LIST and that made that particular systems administer
happy.

OTOH, my software seems to filter those automated messages, so it's not really been an issue for me.

-- Rick


At 11:08 AM 8/13/03 -0700, JC Dil wrote:
>At 10:39 AM 8/13/2003, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
>>Consider how it scales.  Assume that at any given time, maybe 5% of your
>>list are "on vacation".
>
>Heh.  This is a list for people who work at ISPs.  In the 5 years I've been 
>administrating this list we have had a problem with an autoresponder 
>maybe once a year.  For the most part, ISP folks just don't take vacation,
>   [Portion deleted for brevity]
>_______________________[ End ]_______________________ 



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