[log in to unmask] (Richard W. Wiggins) writes:
 
>Whichever way it might be resolved, it seems for now neither the auto-reply
>tools nor the mailing list processors do the job, and as a result we end up
>with lots of:
>"I'm in Aruba, I'll read this next week"
>messages sent to mailing lists.
 
The Unix vacation program doesn't reply to list mail.  I've used it off
and on all summer and so far haven't seen it fail.  I think the header
it uses is the "to" line.  It will not, for example, send a reply to
mail that comes "to multiple recipients of x list."  You can, of course,
change that default setting if for some reason you want it to reply to
such mail.
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   Natalie ([log in to unmask])