In article <c0524e4e-ee67-48f3-b999-08a2fa2bb...@trouble.is>, Philip Paeps via mailop <phi...@trouble.is> wrote: >On 2020-02-07 08:34:13 (-0800), Jaroslaw Rafa via mailop wrote: >> It would be best if autoresponders simply didn't reply to messages >> from mailing lists. > >That windmill is not going to budge no matter how much you try to tilt it...
People who write mail software have known at least since the 1980s that an autoresponder should only respond if the recipient's address is on the To: or maybe the Cc: line. I have a procmail man page from about 1991 with an autoresponder recipe that makes that check. Unfortunately, none of those people appear ever to have worked in Redmond WA. -- Regards, John Levine, jo...@taugh.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop
