On Thu, 25 Dec 2003 14:18:46 -0600 "Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr." <larrysheldon@cox.net> wrote:
Mark Prior wrote:
Why do so many supposedly clueful people have their vacation message system respond to mailing list email?
Now I'll get to see who also doesn't keep a list of addresses that have already been sent the out of office message :-)
Among the ones I found when I looked into the question with some rigor a few years ago were that mailing list traffic often no longer has a useful "precedence" value that was used to screen such mail.
nanog has a clear Precedence: bulk line in the header which is the defacto standard for handling this, so that can't be it. i think it's basically clueless IT staffs trying to reinvent a wheel that's been invented, usually badly, billions and billions of times over the past 30 or so years. richard -- Richard Welty rwelty@averillpark.net Averill Park Networking 518-573-7592 Java, PHP, PostgreSQL, Unix, Linux, IP Network Engineering, Security