Re: too many "Out of Office AutoReply"

[Paul Hoffman / IMC]

At 1:23 PM -0400 6/29/01, John C Klensin wrote:
>Paul, while I generally agree with your description of the
>problem, we _do_ have a standard in this case.   RFC 2919
>specifies some list-specific special headers.

Correct. That standard was issued after all of the SMTP servers in 
question were released. (For those of you who don't want to look in 
the RFC archive, that RFC was issued in March 2001.)

>   From episodic
>examinations of messages arriving here from various lists, it
>has gotten reasonably well implemented, almost certainly enough
>so to  promote it to Draft Standard if someone does the work in
>the next few months.

But, of course, that won't help in the current case, because this 
list doesn't use the standard.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium