Re: Out of office/vacation messages

[William Allen Simpson <wsimpson () greendragon com>]

Top posting, Pete Templin wrote:
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> ...
>
> Alright, I'll bite.
>
> What are the "NANOG-approved" MTA/MUAs for this list that sort by
> conversation thread, run on Windows, send in wrapped plain text, have
> NANOG-approved OOO messages, and otherwise don't cause a flamestorm on
> the list?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu [mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2003 11:02 PM
> To: Mark Prior
> Cc: nanog () merit edu
> Subject: Re: Out of office/vacation messages
>
> 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.

Well, let's see:

 - sort by conversation thread, 
Are there any that don't?

 - run on Windows,
Oops, I see your problem.  No self-respecting network operator runs any 
M$W boxen as an MTA, so Templin is an imposter/troll.  

Some foolish individuals run M$W MUA.  I don't such things myself, but 
both Netscape and Eudora work fine for me on MacOS, so I'd expect them 
to behave on M$W.

 - send in wrapped plain text, 
Hmmm, I usually just wrap my own.  But both Netscape and Eudora have 
that capability for the operationally challenged.

 - have NANOG-approved OOO messages,
Folks running reasonable MTA/MUA don't have this problem, so why don't 
you check the message headers to see what clueful folks are using, 
rather than trolling the list?  You can see all the message headers, 
can't you? 

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