So how can this problem be resolved?  If I participate on a list with 3,000
members, I'm expected to endure thousands of OOO replies each time I post to
the list?  There has to be a better way.

I've read the posts about telling the users to switch their subscriptions to
digest when they are away.  That's a good idea - but let's face it - users
are users.  The majority of them will forget to do this.  We shouldn't have
to rely on users to eliminate this behavior.  The user also shouldn't be
burdened with the additional responsibility.

Has anyone used, perhaps, a third party tool like an smtp listener to filter
out OOO replies?  I'm really grasping at straws here...anyone have any ides?

-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Parker [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 1:33 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Sender receiving OOO Replies

On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 12:08:17 -0400, Jeff Kiesel <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

>Our list is internal, and all recipients use Microsoft Outlook.  Could it
be
>that Outlook's autoresponder disregards the Reply-To header?

Yes, by design.  My experience has been that most auto-reponders use the
From:
address to send their auto-response to, since that address best represents
the
"sender" of the message who is presumably the "best" person to notify that
the
recipient didn't get the message.