> There are two widely held positions (and there are others, which is why
> there is no official standard yet).
>
> One is the Berkeley vacation program, which would only respond to the
> message From: header if the recipient was actually listed in the message
> To: or Cc: header. This fails for lists that put the actual recipient
> in the message headers and then set the message Reply-To: header to the
> list, unless the user remembers to pre-list the mailing lists.
It shouldn't, if the list puts Precedence: Bulk or other standard hints in
the header to show that it's a mailing list.
> The other is to follow the path of the Delivery Status Notification
> (DSN) and Message Delivery Notification (MDN) standards, which both
> specify the use of the envelope from for their purposes.
Wow, is that broken. But I won't start up this argument again other than
to note that whenever I see a vacation notice in response to a message on
one of my lists I immediately remove the perpetrator from the list and so
do all of the other list admins I know.
Regards,
John Levine, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://iecc.com/johnl, Sewer Commissioner
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