On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 6:11 PM,  <bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com> wrote:
        and just how is an algorithm supposed to detect that
        <jeff-k...@utc.edu> is a single human and not a list?

If the autoresponder is sane, it looks for:

List-Id: North American Network Operators Group <nanog.nanog.org>

Yes, there are a lot of headers that give you a hint that a message is from a list. But the heuristic to look for the recipient's address on the To: line works so well, along with a little rate limiting, that you don't really need anything else.

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John Levine, jo...@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
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