Of course, any specific offenders will probably not get your message until they return, at which point they won't be using an out of office reply. :-\
While these might not ALL be coming from MS Outlook clients, I know Outlook's Out Of Office Reply feature is one of the more common offenders in improper auto response. Since I'm going on vacation soon, I googled up a page for creating custom out of office responses in Outlook. The instructions deal with issues specific to the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (where they originated), but they're clear enough that most people should be able to adapt them to other mailing lists (such as this one). In the hopes that others might find it useful, here's the link: http://www2.slac.stanford.edu/comp/messaging/Using/custom-out-of-office.htm I know this is off-topic, but it's not the first time this has come up. I'm sure even those who don't comment on it publicly, grumble in private when they receive dozens of out-of-office responses to their posts. I'm testing the rule I created today. Essentially, it says, "have server reply using 'On vacation' except if from 'IP Filter Mailing List' or except if it is an Out of Office message." If anyone posts here today and receives an "On vacation" message from me, please let me know. Dan Baye -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of wh1tef8 Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 3:21 AM To: BOUTIN François Xavier SCE; Buozis, Martynas; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; PradeepReddy, Maram Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: Out of Office AutoReply: ipf rules preventing smtp traffic with ATT mailservers Please take your auto-reply off the list will you??? not that I dont mind hearing from you all but I dont most likely among others as well dont care if you are on vacation. "Trying to be as polite as possible." But if I send mail to the list I dont want to receive email back from as many people that just randomly decide to go on vacation at the same time.
