[66174] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Out of office/vacation messages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Wed Dec 31 01:30:16 2003
To: Mark Prior <mrp@mrp.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 25 Dec 2003 15:03:39 +1030."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2003 00:02:19 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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On Thu, 25 Dec 2003 15:03:39 +1030, Mark Prior <mrp@mrp.net> said:
> Why do so many supposedly clueful people have their vacation message
> system respond to mailing list email?
Because it's *impossible* to get one of the most popular MUAs to understand
that mail with an SMTP MAIL FROM 'owner-*@*' shouldn't be replied to.
So it's just a special case of "why do clueful people use software from that
vendor"?. And since it's the holidays, let's just leave it at that.
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