Good timely posting Mark
For those of you from the MG list, remember Dan Hughes day is coming up ;-)
On 11/10/01 2:59 AM, "Mark J Bradakis" <mjb@autox.team.net> wrote:
>
> A simple reply may not work, depending on your mailer. The reply address may
> not be the list posting address. This is done as a preventive measure.
> Suppose that I. B. Kloolys gets a break from his kumquat bleaching job down
> at the plant, and heads off to bake in the desert sun for a week. He sets up
> a program to respond to incoming mails with a canned reply. Now, suppose
> that the mail headers from the list set the reply address to the list. List
> member Orville Oversteer sends a message to the list about his new teflon
> lined muffler trunnions. The message gets sent to the list. The vacation
> responder set up by our hero ibkloolys@kumquat.com sends back to the list a
> quick note about him being out of the office. So then the mail server at
> autox.team.net gets the reply, addressed to the list, so it sends it to the
> list. The vacation responder that ibkloolys@kumquat.com set up sends back
> to the list a quick note about him being out of the office. The mail server
> at autox.team.net gets the reply, and sends it to the list. The vacation
> responder that ibkloolys@kumquat.com set up sends back to the list a quick
> note about him being out of the office. The mail server at autox.team.net
> gets the reply, and sends it to the list. The vacation responder .... I'm
> sure that most of you get the idea by now.
>
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