Tue, 20 Feb 2001 14:23:23 -0500
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On 20 Feb 2001, at 13:11, Fred Karp wrote:
>Someone goes out on the road for a week or three and wants an autoreply to
>his or her email. We want first either to set that person to NoMAIL for
>each list or to exclude those lists from the autoreply.
This discussion probably needs an "autoresponder" list to move to but....
I think a well-designed autoresponder should send mail to defined "safe"
or desirable recipients _only_, as opposed to the existing crocks that
I'm aware of that respond to everything except (maybe) clearly ID'ed
"not-safe" recipients. Screening messages with an RFC821 "from:" that
starts "owner-" will screen all LSoft Listserv messages, even obscure
or forgotten ones in other domains. But then you have lists transmitted
by Majordomo, Listproc, PostOffice etc plus Cousin Remus wrote-it-hisself
that get inappropriate (possibly loop inducing) responses. And the usual
non-list inappropriate recipients of auto-responders like spammers (bounce)
forgers (possible loops) and creepy people who decide to drop by your home
to play with your stuff while you're on vacation.
-Kary
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