Out of office/vacation messages

Fri Dec 26 11:18:22 UTC 2003

> > Why do so many supposedly clueful people have their vacation message
> > system respond to mailing list email?
> 
> Among the ones I found when I looked into the question with some
> rigor a few years ago were that mailing list traffic often no longer
> has a useful "precedence" value that was used to screen such mail.

Surely regardless of the presence of precedence you would never autoreply to an 
email that wasnt addressed to you personally?

Steve