Re: vacationers..
Re: vacationers..
- Subject: Re: vacationers..
- From: Alexander von Below <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 13:30:38 +0200
Unless the list admin did something, I saw something smart very
recently:
A single out-of office reply to the list!
I assume (unless the admin just banned that person), the "vacation"
algorithm checks if the recipient has already received an "out of
office" reply, and does not send one again. That I do not mind, one
is OK (even though the email said something about "serving our nation
by going to jury duty" and -- unless I was drugged the last 30 years
-- there is no jury duty in my nation. Thus, please kindly recall:
Make no assumptions about the nationality of the posters on this list)
Alex
Am 25.08.2007 um 05:44 schrieb Jim Witte:
On Aug 10, 2007, at 7:58 PM, Greg Guerin wrote:
Bill Abt's brain-dead mailbot wrote:
I will be out of the office starting 08/10/2007 and will not
return until
08/20/2007.
Dear Bill, Samuel, or any other vacationers: ..
Would it be possible for the major mailing list hosts (Mailman is
one, I don't know about any others) to detect these messages, and
automatically set a vacation flag, and then send out an email to
the person once every day or so saying such (perhaps marked so as
not to bounce, or with a return address to 'bounce@....' so that
the rest of the list wouldn't see it?)
For that matter, are these 'out of office' emails tagged in the
header with an 'X-Out-Of-Office' head or something? How long would
it take to get that written into the RFC (or just convince MS and
Apple to put it into Outlook Express, Outlook, and Mail, and you'd
have a de-facto standard.)
You (might) have to figure out some way this couldn't be abused
by mal-ware writters though.. Having a challenge-response of some
kind might work, but it would *require* that the mail-recipient-
programs do something, and not just be something implemented on the
list-host side.
- Jim (wondering what percentage of all email is such 'out of
office' stuff - we already know that 80%+ of all mail is either
porn, drug, nigerian, or mortage-r@ate spam.. Down to the
remaining 20%.. <shakes head> How much cleaner would the I-net
pipes run? Cisco Systems and Level 3 must be on cloud 9.. No
wonder all the college kids just use Facebook - no spam :) yet
anyway..)
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