[nsp] Auto Replys / Out of Office

[Stephen J. Wilcox]

Cool, so you cant read this then ? ;)


When I'm not too busy I reply to autoresponders and ask them to fix. Not sure 
its successful but I feel like I'm helping in some way ! 

Steve


On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Shalosky, Brian K Mr CONT USAREC wrote:

> If you are on an Exchange based system you can set up a rule that will auto
> delete all the out of office replies.  I created a rule that looks for the
> text "Out of Office" and deletes them.
> 
> 
> 
> Brian 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ryan O'Connell [mailto:ryan-nsp at complicity.co.uk] 
> Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 1:47 PM
> To: Voll, Scott; cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: Re: [nsp] Auto Replys
> 
> On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 10:14:03 -0800 "Voll, Scott" <Scott.Voll at wesd.org>
> wrote:
> > Does everyone get auto replys when they send a message?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > what a pain?
> 
> Indeed. People using Auto-replies should make sure their mail system
> honours the "Precidence: List" header and not send out of office replies.
> (Or just don't use autoreplies if you're on Exchange unless you admin
> disables this to external addresse - it's broken)
> 
> > Is there something I can do to stop it on my end?
> 
> A while ago the list admin posted to the list and people who responded with
> out-of-office autoreplies were unsubscribed. I don't know if he plans to do
> it again, at the time (Christmas) the number of replies was getting silly.
> (20-30 OOO replies to one message)
> 
>