On 2013-10-24 12:16, Kaz Kylheku wrote:

These are a bad idea.

If you say so. But in my experience, a properly configured auto-responder can avoid most of what you complain about.

For example, the vacation addition for sendmail can be configured to ignore traffic from properly configured mailing lists, and will only reply to any given sender address once per 7 day period.

I've had it in production for several years and have not experienced the issues you complain of.

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Arne Berglund
System Administrator, Internet Services
Lane Education Service District
Eugene, OR
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