Russ,

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.

I don't get enough of them to be a major problem, and I activate the perl
script manually
when I see such a message but it would be simple matter to pipe the message
directly
to the script from procmail, I think.

Bill



----- Original Message -----
From: "Russ Hunt" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 11:47 AM
Subject: Re: Out of office replies (again)


> This is an interesting idea.  I take it it happens, though,
> _after_ the first OoO message has been distributed to the list?
> And what does it do about the ones which go, not to the list but
> to the individual poster?
>
> -- Russ
>
> On 30 Jul 2002 at 11:28, Bill Schipper wrote:
>
> > As a list owner of a number of active lists I get these
> > kinds of messages regularly.  Since all the mail comes to my
> > mailbox anyway, I use a combination of procmail and a perl
> > filter to separate such messages.  When I catch one, the perl
> > filter automatically sends a command to listserv to set the
> > offender to NOMAIL. St. Thomas University
> http://www.StThomasU.ca/~hunt/
>
>