OT: Vacation messages to list posts

[Paul Guyot]

À (At) 2:37 -0800 24/12/03, Karsten M. Self écrivait (wrote) :
>It's generally considered inconsiderate, not to mention an indiscrete
>advertisement of a potentially vacant house, to allow 'vacation'
>autoresponses to list mail.
>
>I've received over a half-dozen of same in response to my most recent
>post to this list.  I'd strongly encourage subscribers to double-check
>their mail rules, and reconsider use of a vacation message at all.
>A delegated forward would likely be more useful, less annoying, and less
>a security issue.

I don't like (and don't use) vacation messages either, but I think 
that the good ones (not them all unfortunately) test if there is a 
Precedence: bulk header, and this list (software?) doesn't provide 
such a header.

Paul
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