[66098] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Out of office/vacation messages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephane Bortzmeyer)
Thu Dec 25 15:55:52 2003
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@gitoyen.net>
To: "Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr." <larrysheldon@cox.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: <3FEB4626.94C862EB@cox.net>
("Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr." <larrysheldon@cox.net>'s message of
Thu, 25 Dec 2003 14:18:46 CST)
Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2003 21:53:35 +0100
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thursday 25 December 2003, at 14 h 18,
"Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr." <larrysheldon@cox.net> wrote:
> Among the ones I found when I looked into the question with some
> rigor a few years ago were that mailing list traffic often no longer
> has a useful "precedence" value that was used to screen such mail.
There are several other tests to perform (if you are a reasonable program, that is), before sending an "Out of the office" message. An obvious one is to see wether your human owner is mentioned in the To: field. Unless the list explodes the messages in one explicit copy per recipient, this is enough.
