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Subject: Re: list policies about vacation programs
From: JC Dill <inet-list @ vo . cnchost . com>
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 16:10:10 -0700
To: listmanagers <list-managers @ greatcircle . com>
In-reply-to: <4.3.2.7.2.20030813174412.0308dd20@mail.rixlists.net>
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At 02:50 PM 8/13/2003, The Rick of RixLists wrote:
>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

The list uses the

         Precedence: list

header, as well as several List- headers.  There is no reason for a 
properly configured vacation program to treat the list email as "normal" email.

jc




>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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