[66099] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Out of office/vacation messages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Thu Dec 25 20:01:49 2003
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: suresh@outblaze.com (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 00:50:26 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2003-12-25, Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@gitoyen.net> wrote:
> 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.
Of course, that doesn't work with a list that doesn't set reply-to the list.
A lot of followups on nanog are reply-all, cc'd to the OP and anybody else who
posted to a thread.
srs
