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Re: Out of office/vacation messages
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer () gitoyen net>
Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2003 21:53:35 +0100
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.
Current thread:
- Out of office/vacation messages Mark Prior (Dec 24)
- Re: Out of office/vacation messages Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. (Dec 25)
- Re: Out of office/vacation messages Richard Welty (Dec 25)
- Re: Out of office/vacation messages Simon Lockhart (Dec 25)
- Re: Out of office/vacation messages Stephen J. Wilcox (Dec 26)
- Re: Out of office/vacation messages Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. (Dec 26)
- Re: Out of office/vacation messages Richard Welty (Dec 25)
- Re: Out of office/vacation messages Valdis . Kletnieks (Dec 30)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Out of office/vacation messages Stephane Bortzmeyer (Dec 25)
- Re: Out of office/vacation messages Suresh Ramasubramanian (Dec 25)
- Re: Out of office/vacation messages Niels Bakker (Dec 25)
- Re: Out of office/vacation messages Suresh Ramasubramanian (Dec 25)
- Re: Out of office/vacation messages Stephane Bortzmeyer (Dec 26)
- Re: Out of office/vacation messages Suresh Ramasubramanian (Dec 26)
- Re: Out of office/vacation messages Suresh Ramasubramanian (Dec 25)
- Re: Out of office/vacation messages Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. (Dec 25)
- Re: Out of office/vacation messages Suresh Ramasubramanian (Dec 26)
- Re: Out of office/vacation messages David Lesher (Dec 26)