Out of office/vacation messages

Fri Jan 2 13:48:05 UTC 2004

Alright, I'll bite.

What are the "NANOG-approved" MTA/MUAs for this list that sort by
conversation thread, run on Windows, send in wrapped plain text, have
NANOG-approved OOO messages, and otherwise don't cause a flamestorm on
the list?

-----Original Message-----
From: Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu [mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2003 11:02 PM
To: Mark Prior
Cc: nanog at merit.edu
Subject: Re: Out of office/vacation messages 

On Thu, 25 Dec 2003 15:03:39 +1030, Mark Prior <mrp at mrp.net>  said:
> Why do so many supposedly clueful people have their vacation message
> system respond to mailing list email?

Because it's *impossible* to get one of the most popular MUAs to
understand
that mail with an SMTP MAIL FROM 'owner-*@*' shouldn't be replied to.

So it's just a special case of "why do clueful people use software from
that
vendor"?.  And since it's the holidays, let's just leave it at that.