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Subject: Re: Vacation Message Loops
From: Mikko Hänninen <Mikko . Hanninen @ dna . fi>
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Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1999 03:23:25 +0300
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In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9909041036560.1455-100000@chinet.com>; from Adam H. Kerman on Sat, Sep 04, 1999 at 10:52:57AM -0500
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Reply-to: Mikko . Hanninen @ iki . fi

Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote on Sat, 04 Sep 1999:
> Vacation loops are probably avoided because the list member's vacation program
> is distinguishing between mailing lists and personal e-mail and not replying to
> the former.

Some vacation programs (supposedly) look for the header:
Precedence: bulk

It's not any sort of standard but I've seen that in a lot of mailing
list emails.

> Put a regular expression in taboo_body and taboo_headers that matches a unique
> token the server adds, such as "owner-[listname]@host.domain". Vacation
> programs tend to quote back messages.

A good way (IMHO anyway) is to add a Mailing-List header to all the list
mails, and then put Mailing-List into taboo_headers.  Eg.
Mailing-List: contact mailing-list-owner@myserver.com for help


Mikko
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