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- From: klensin@infoods.mit.edu (John C Klensin)
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.pmdf
- Subject: RE: deliver and 'vacation' processing
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- Date: 20 Aug 92 23:27:25 GMT
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- >By the way, be sure that your VACATION.COM keeps a record of addresses that
- >have been sent a vacation message to. Use this list to then prevent sending
- >repeated messages to. If you don't do this, then you can create some nasty
- >mailing loops whereby you keep on sending mail to a mailing list....
-
- If you must use vacation things at all, you will be a *lot* less
- unpopular if you figure out which lists you are subscribed to and
- take precautions to *not* send little notes to them. In addition to
- whatever you set up that is specific to the sending patterns of each
- particular list, note that any mail that is not addressed to you under
- whatever normal individual names you maintain has reasonable odds of
- being addressed to a list; excluding all of these from automatic
- message generation is not a bad idea. Doing this in a simple way
- may exclude notification of senders of messages on which you are a "cc"
- recipient, which is not necessarily a bad idea either.
-
- If you want to get a tad more sophisticated about this, use the
- rebuild facilities (1,2,3) to grab ENVELOPE-FROM: Many Internet list
- exploders use names that match owner-* or *request@ in that field and
- can thus be indentified.
-
- At the moment, I can't think of a simple heuristic that will capture all
- LISTSERV stuff, but there probably is one.
-
- Suggestion: If someone works out a good set of generic DELIVER rules to
- simulate a "vacation" function without driving list members and
- maintainers it would be really nice to make them available so that each
- person who has this idea doesn't have to re-invent it (or come back to
- a mailbox full of abuse).
-
- john
-