skidley wrote:

> Yeah that sucks, he must have an autoresponder set up :(

Not so much set up, more likely he tried to roll his own.  If he'd set up a proper
autoresponder it would
a) Ignore mail with a precedence of bulk/junk/list and
b) Not respond to the same address more than once per 24 hours

This is off-topic but I think it's timely to remember the golden rule of
auto-responders, never, never *never* roll your own if established alternatives like
'vacation' will do what you want.  And if you do feel compelled to write your own, put
some serious testing and debugging into it, don't just break out the perl two hours
before jumping on the plane.
Unfortuneately I had to learn this the hard way myself, on a pretty unforgiving list
too which is why I'm so adamant about the subject :-).



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