[66100] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Out of office/vacation messages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Niels Bakker)
Thu Dec 25 21:03:46 2003
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 03:02:56 +0100
From: Niels Bakker <niels=nanog@bakker.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Mail-Followup-To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <slrnbun1ei.ura.linux@frodo.hserus.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> 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.
* suresh@outblaze.com (Suresh Ramasubramanian) [Fri 26 Dec 2003, 02:01 CET]:
> 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.
Why would you enable O-o-O autoreplies if you're actively participating
in a thread on a mailing list?
(Stepping over the obvious question - why would you enable them in the
first place, knowing that it annoys the hell out of a lot of people)
-- Niels.
