Re: No misdirected 'vacation' messages

At 15:46 05/02/2004, Charles Cazabon wrote:
> > Please add this one:
> > (triggered by one of these misdirected 'vacation' messages that
> > I got today)
> >
> > - Users want both their and other people's absence/vacation messages
> >    to go to the right place (e.g. original sender of a mail rather than
> >    a whole mailing list).
>
>This isn't a flaw in the mail protocol; it's a flaw in either (or both) the
>mailing list manager and the autoresponder involved.  autoresponders should
>(today) be replying only to the envelope sender address, and not responding to
>messages from mailing lists (which are clearly identified by various headers,
>including Mailing-List: and heuristics like Precedence:).
>
>In short, it's a solved problem.

No, it's a problem with a solution. There's a difference.

People want it to always work. It doesn't now. Hence, it's a 'user requirement'


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