It's not as simple as you might think. There have been long heated discussions about how to deal with vacation auto-responders on lists - including Majordomo. In the end, there's 2 options:
1) A subject filter that drops all messages with "out of the office" and "away on vacation" somewhere in the subject. That will also kill real postings with the strings in them. Also, various away responders may have different subject styles so the rules you implement may only work 50% of the time. As the list grows, the chances of a variety of vacation clutter grows. 2) The second option, which is typical for people who openly use mailing lists, is to set up your auto-responder to not send 'away' replies to e-mail addresses that are mailing lists. That can be done with partial address matching or by specifying the e-mail addresses manually. It only takes one step, by you or your mail admin, and it's dealt with for good. It would be great if people in very active lists, like U2-users, took the time to exclude their list subscriptions from their auto-responders. Glen -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Louie Bergsagel Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2006 2:13 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [U2] Steve Cashman You'd think something so simple would be part of any list server. Maybe we need to write an mvListserver... On 2/24/06, Mark Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm guessing March 6. Just a hunch. > > I think that the list server should/could detect these and terminate. > Otherwise, they could spin out of countrol. > > Mark Johnson > ----- Original Message ----- > ... > > Does anyone know when Steve Cashman will be back in the office? > ... ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
