There is another option. Don't use auto-response messages. After all if the
people in your office don't know you're gone then you've got to start
interfacing more with the people you work with. If they don't notice when
you're gone then they probably don't notice when you're there.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Glen B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2006 2:57 PM
Subject: [U2] [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Email has different SMTP TO: and MIME TO:
fields in the email addresses - RE: [U2] Steve Cashman
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?
...
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