On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 11:33:31PM +0100, Lloyd Wood wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Vernon Schryver wrote:
>
> > > From: Doug Royer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > ...
> > > Could you please point me at the standards (or otherwise) documents
> > > that describe the semantics of 'Precedence:'? It sounds interesting
> > > but I just can't seem to find out what you mean or expect it to do.
> >
> > `man vacation` on any modern BSD-like UNIX box should say something like:
> > No message will be sent unless login (or an alias supplied using the -a
> > option) is part of either the ``To:'' or ``Cc:'' headers of the mail.
>
> Over the past few weeks I've been replying to a number
> of vacation mails sent to me as a result of posting here with:
>
> I sent mail to a mailing list. Not to you. Your autoreply software
> should only reply to mail explicitly To: or Cc: you.
This breaks for mail aliases. Perhaps, if you are root on
a unix machine, you might want someone sending mail to that address
to know you are away?
Austin
