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From: thomas@utah-gr.UUCP (Spencer W. Thomas)
Newsgroups: net.mail
Subject: Re: Standard mail header field for mechanically generated mail?
Message-ID: <912@utah-gr.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 21-Sep-83 10:18:37 EDT
Article-I.D.: utah-gr.912
Posted: Wed Sep 21 10:18:37 1983
Date-Received: Thu, 22-Sep-83 02:41:11 EDT
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Not only should "vacation" programs not reply to messages from other
such programs, but they should also never reply to messages on a mailing
list.  The classic example here is (on the Arpanet) unix-emacs@cmu-cs-c
which mungs the headers so the return address is (guess what...) the
whole list!  I've only seen one "I'm on vacation..." message on it so
far, but that's probably due to the scarcity of vacation programs.

=Spencer