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Author Re: [OT] Is there a policy regarding subscrjbers with challenge/response
Scott E Robinson

2005-06-06, 8:55 pm

>>>>> "Scott" == Scott E Robinson <scott.e.robinson@exxonmobil.com> writes:

Scott> Regarding the suggestion to unsubscribe folks who put vacation
messages on
Scott> their account, I'm in a company which considers it very good
practice to do
Scott> so. They don't actually require it, but it's expected. We use
Lotus
Scott> Notes. I know there's a way to set up a rule that keeps certain
e-mail
Scott> addresses from getting the vacation auto-reply, but that doesn't
seem like
Scott> it would work for the Perl list, where so many different people are
the
Scott> senders.

>You shouldn't send a vacation reply when you aren't explicitly listed
>in the headers. And you shouldn't *ever* send it to a list address.


Thanks. I was able to set Lotus Notes to exempt the beginners@perl.org
address from auto-replies. We'll see if that works next month when I'm on
vacation. I don't see an option to suppress replies when I'm not
explicitly listed in the headers.

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