[66112] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Out of office/vacation messages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.)
Fri Dec 26 12:37:01 2003
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 11:36:24 -0600
From: "Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr." <larrysheldon@cox.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
"Stephen J. Wilcox" wrote:
>
> > > Why do so many supposedly clueful people have their vacation message
> > > system respond to mailing list email?
> >
> > 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.
>
> Surely regardless of the presence of precedence you would never autoreply to an
> email that wasnt addressed to you personally?
I would not, not would an autoresponder that I would use.
But this was addressed to me, cc NANOG, with no precedence indicated.
My point, pretty much exactly.
