Moderators setting vacation messages

> Hi,
> 
> I've run qmail/ezmlm for several years with few problems.
> I've recently setup a couple of new moderated lists and discovered
> problems due to moderators setting up vacation messages.  The moderator's
> vacation message seems to be replying to the 'From' address of a
> moderation request, which is immediately rejecting the message.  I guess
> this is safer than immediately replying to the Reply-To address, which
> would immediately accept the message without any real moderation, but is
> still very undesirable:
> - with a single moderator, it gives no possibility of the moderator
> returning from vacation within the next 5 days and then accepting the
> message as it's already been rejected.
> - with multiple moderators it makes even less sense as one moderator with
> a vacation auto-reply immediately rejects the message and gives no
> possibility for another moderator to accept it.
> 
> I can't find any reference to this issue in the manuals or FAQ's.  I can't
> believe it's never been considered before.
> 
> Is there anyway of working round this?
> E.g. is it possible to set "precedence: bulk" on the moderate request
> message?  I can't find any headeradd functionality for moderation messages
> and the text dir seems to be just message body text, not headers.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any useful feedback,
> 
> Andy Read
>