On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 07:29:21AM +0100, Peter S Tillier wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mel LaVerne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 12:43 PM
> Subject: Re: [ql-users] Spam
>
>
> <snip>
> > >Still only 3 weeks or so to go =8-(
> >
> > Make that _FIVE_ weeks ! :-( Total holiday: 38 days. Three gone by.
> > Thirty five to go.
> <snip>
>
> Ooops, yes, I actually meant to type "4 weeks or so" because I couldn't be
> bothered to work it out exactly and a typo got in the way ;-)
>
> It would be a really good idea if auto-responses in email clients were
> marked as such in the headers then it would be simple for list owners/list
> software to eliminate them.
no. The best solution is to make vacation programs intelligent enough
to
- not respond to mailing lists and daemon notifications
- keep a database of addresses they have already notified
- eliminate duplicates by checking msgid, hashed message
contents, X-Loop headers and everything else.
Aehm.. can't help not to mention that all of this has been implemented
OpenSource more than 15 years ago and worked perfectly until Bill's
(not any on this list) blessings reached us.
Kit's software is relatively moderate yet, I have seen cases where
NT software is stupid enough to respond to its own autoresponses!
Bye
Richard
