Mon, 30 Jul 90 00:13:05 O
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I attempted to run 'vacation' on one of my Un*x accounts to see what kind
of header it generates, as I had read something about a 'Precedence:
junk' tag in the help files. Unfortunately, instead of the expected
message I got a nastygram saying that there was an unknown imail error
139, that the core was dumped followed a memory fault and that a copy of
the offending message would follow (which it did). In addition I got a
message with empty body whose subject said I was in vacation and whose
header contained no particular tag, other than the usual 'From:' and
'To:'. So, it looks like there is no such tag in the current version of
of the program. I sincerely doubt anybody will be able to convince the
Un*x folks to update their program in this fashion just for the sake of
this IBM heresy known under the name of BITNET; your only chance is to
find a case where it screws up their UUCP lists, suggest that they should
NOT solve the problem by adding a 'Precedence: junk' tag to the mail
header because this would cause serious LISTSERV mailing loops within
BITNET, and wait a couple months :-)
Eric
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