On Wed, 29 Jan 1997 16:50:05 -0500 Valdis Kletnieks <[log in to unmask]> said: >Pray tell.. do you know of a reliable programmatic way to detect that a >given message came from a list, and therefor should not be >vacation-replied to? If so, please share, so that the world may benefit >;) If the return path starts with owner- or ends in -request or -owner, changes are VERY GOOD that this comes from a mailing list. I'm sure there are lists that don't match this rule, but I doubt there are many. Eric