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Re: Out of office/vacation messages


From: "Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr." <larrysheldon () cox net>
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 11:36:24 -0600


"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.


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