At 04:15 AM 11/7/2002 , you wrote:
The vacation program I use will only respond to a message if:That's not the way to stop vacation replies. I can se Jeff uses a faulty vacation entigine for 2 reasons:- There is no trach on the source and the reply addresses of the messages. If it keeps track of those addresses, then the list would only see 1 (one) vacation message. - There is no 'this is a vacation' headerfield added. Most vacation systems add a header like 'Precedence: junk' to indicate the message is just informative. Most maillistengines have a filter on these headers so the list does not see any vacation message.
1) My address appears in the To: or Cc: field. This eliminates all mailing lists, as well as most spam.
2) No auto reply messages have been send to the sender of the original message in the past week. This makes sure that you don't keep notifying someone that you are on vacation.
These options (especially the first one) should be standard in any sane vacation program. I get the feeling this was not a standard vacation program.
That being said, I want to restore this list to being about VNC, and not mailing lists or vacation programs. I don't particularly blame anyone for what happened, but I'm sure everyone has learned something in the process. I would even welcome Jeff back to the list... I strongly doubt he will be using that vacation program again. I assume he is a bit embarrassed about this whole fiasco.
-Ben :)
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