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Re: autoresponding to Yahoo DMARC breakage

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John R. Levine)
Wed Apr 9 18:27:52 2014

Date: 9 Apr 2014 16:27:14 -0600
From: "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To: "Jeff Kell" <jeff-kell@utc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <5345C7AA.9000304@utc.edu>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

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>> The most "sane" out-of-mind response should only be sent *if* the
>> out-of-mind person is named explicitly as a recipient in the RFC822
>> To: header.  Anything To: somelist@somehost does not qualify :)

This highly effective trick was in the procmail example vacation script in 
1991, and doubtless goes back much farther than that.  It's a little 
dismaying to hear that there are still people writing autoresponders who 
don't know about it.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. http://jl.ly
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