I was just about to turn on my procmail-based vacation autoresponder when I
decided to check first which senders might theoretically get bombarded with
such messages. We all know what trouble a poorly done vacation program can
cause, so I thought I'd look first. My program:
ignores mailer daemons
ignores Precedence bulk/junk
ignores loops to myself
and only responds if To/Cc me
This mimics the Berkeley vacation program and in theory should be pretty
darn safe. But I found a number of "mailing lists" that would get hit.
These lists insist on addressing directly to me (instead of a list address)
and do not utilize Precedence headers. My question: is this a "they screwed
up" situation, or is there something else I could be doing to be more
net-friendly?
--bill
