On Thu, 30 Jan 1997 09:13:03 CST, you said:
> Hopefully the person will know what lists they are subscribed to.  That
> assumption being the case (and we all know what "assume" means), the
> user should be able to tell the vactation program which addresses to
> not respond to.

Hmm.. I personally have 23 lists that get special handling in
my .procmailrc, and at least another 18 that are low-activity and I don't
automagically sort into their own folder.

Want to make estimate of the likelyhood that I'll subscribe to
another list and forget to add it to the list of lists to not
reply to? ;)  Hint - it wasn't till I checked my main maildrop that
I was reminded that I was *on* the tismoss-users mailing list,
since that hasn't had any activity for about 2 months....

"know what lists you're subscribed to" can be a challenge - many
of the lists I'm on are of the wombats-announce variety, where there
is traffic only when a new release of something comes out.  Consider
LSTSRV-M as an example - how often does THAT get traffic?  But when it
does, it's something you probably do *NOT* want to miss, AND you don't
want to 'vacation' back at. ;)

But then, I'm an abberation - since Jan 13, I've been averaging 238
pieces of mail a day, *not* counting the listserv postmaster traffic
(about 300 more a day, but htat was mostly due to 2 big spikes that
each generated 1,500+ pieces of bounce mail when the moderator address
of an active list broke ;)

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                                Valdis Kletnieks
                                Computer Systems Engineer
                                Virginia Tech