Re: [PLUG] out of office and the list

["William H. Magill" <magill@mcgillsociety.org>]

On 25 Feb, 2005, at 11:05, Doug Crompton wrote:
> Just out of curiosity what would the proper etiquettte be? I don't use
> vacation programs but I know with majordomo, which I run, it filters 
> out
> of office replies. I guess that is assuming that the proper text is in 
> the
> header (subject).

There are a lot of "broken" vacation programs out there, this appears 
to be one of them.

There was one version, I think about 5 years ago or more, that simply 
failed to look at the list of messages it had already responded to -- 
i.e. it's database was broken ... yes, a bug, but one which did not 
prevent the unpatched version from being distributed by at least one 
major Unix vendor, who failed to patch it for almost 2 years!

Most? many? some? mailing list programs include a "Precedence: bulk" 
header which a reputable vacation program will ignore.

The PLUG list does not include a "Precedence: bulk: header, perhaps it 
should.


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