[TriLUG] Out Of Office messages

John Franklin franklin at elfie.org
Fri Jul 30 19:00:52 EDT 2004


On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 04:34:30PM -0400, Aaron S. Joyner wrote:
> Okay, we've had a rash of recent "Out Of Office" auto-responder messages 
> - 3 in 2 days.  Just as a friendly reminder, if you subscribe to the 
> list, and you're thinking of going out of town... *DON'T*!
> 
> Or at least, if you go out of town, and would dare think of being 
> _away_from_email_ *gasp* -- either:
> 1) temporarily suspend your messages to the list, which you can easily 
> and conveniently do through the Mailman web interface located here: 
> http://www.trilug.org/mailman/options/trilug
> 2) Configure your autoresponding procmail recipe or .forward script (or 
> Outlook on Exchange, god forbid you) such that it won't auto-respond to 
> the list address.

OoO responders are supposed to ignore messages with Precedence: list or
Precedence: junk in the headers.  If your OoO is responding to TriLUG,
you're probably also responding to spam and some Nigerians with too much
money.

jf
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John Franklin
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