[BC] Richard Cassidy/rcassidy/AmericanU is out of the office.

[Cowboy]

On Friday 23 December 2005 08:06 pm, Sid Schweiger wrote:
>>>if they just set a 'bot to answer emails during vacations and such, it
>loads down everyone else's email, especially when it goes out a mailing
>list....<<
>
>...and, as our company has found out the hard way several times, using
>auto-replies can also get your mail server listed as a spammer.

 And so it should ! It is spam, in this case, by any definition.

 Vacation has existed on *nix systems for decades, and works.
 It will send one and only one notification to any originating address, and
 self-filter any loop it may cause.

 Micro$oft has chosen once again, to re-invent the wheel,
 and done a poor job ( IMHO ) of it.
 Since M$ implements this in the mail client, bypassing any level where it
 can be managed inteligently, there is little alternative, save for someone
 to go hit the Big Switch at that particular machine.

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