This may not be of interest to everybody, but I guess I'm
obsessing about it . . .

> The filter for procmail will catch any message distributed
> via the lists, since it catches all messages that come through
> my mailbox. If the offending mail server sends sucha reply
> directly to the individual sender there is nothing my filters
> can do, of course.

Well, it's not a major problem . . . especially since only one
of maybe 25 or so OoO messages generated by the list last month
actually got back _to_ the list. Most seem either to be sent
only to the original sender or to me as listowner (or maybe
both; I'm not clear about that).  I'm interested here just in
minimizing the number of them that get sent to individual
posters: if you post to a list and get a dozen or so notices
back saying that so and so isn't reading your mail it's an
annoyance, and I have subscribers -- mostly folks who can't get
used to deleting email unread -- who are pretty annoyed by it.

And actually, it seems pretty clear the content-filter on 1.8e
wouldn't actually deal with that, since the reply doesn't go to
the list.

-- Russ



St. Thomas University
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