> From: Joel Jaeggli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> Another common curtesy issue this thread has raised is vacation scripts...
>
> I've recieved 3 dozen or so responses from people on the mailing list who
> have automated vacation scripts. Please if you must use a vaction script
> on your mail either unsubscribe from the mailing list while you're gone,
> use procmail to filter your lists so they don't get caught by your
> vacation script, or just don't use vacation...


It's far from all vacation mechanisms that do the evil deed.  If you look
at the headers, you'll almost certainly find a telltale line of the form:

    X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (...

All ordinary submissions with that black mark should be rejected. 
All requests sent to IETF list control addresses should be interpreted
as unsubscribe requests.  This would not purge the lists of the
current abusers (those who insist on using that junkware and abusing
the rest of us), but it would reduce their proliferation and
encourage some to switch reasonable MUA's.

If the IETF doesn't try to enforce minimal standards where it
affects the business of the IETF, then the junkware vendors will
never bother to fix their junk.


Vernon Schryver    [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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