On Sat, 28 Jul 90 23:49:00 EDT Dimitri Vulis said: >How about doing the reverse --- requiring that all mail generated by >vacation-type programs be identified as such in the header (e.g. 'Content-type: >Vacation notice' or 'Precedence: total junk' or some such. Then LISTSERV (and >non-CMS mailing list bouncers) would simply look for this line, and list owners >/ postmasters would be fully justified in flaming folks/sites that run >non-complying vacation programs. One could start by making appropriate >modifications to the widely used 'vacation' program. They might be "fully justified", but they might also be wholly ineffectual, too. I think it would take just about an RFC to get people to agree a) it's a problem and b) this is the solution. Getting some set of widely used "vacation" programs to comply initially would be a good start, though, depending on how widely used they all are (especially, not just BITNET!). >Dimitri Vulis Nick Laflamme