Re: [tlug] User friendly vacation program

["Jim O'Connell" <oconnell@example.com>]

On Monday, June 16, 2003, at 04:38  PM, Godwin Stewart wrote:
>
> Whatever you go for, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE make sure it doesn't fire off
> "I'm on vacation" messages in response to mailing list traffic...

That's exactly the kind of thing I want to avoid.
(The kind of thing that I'm sure would get done wrong if I leave the 
users to do it themselves.)
Typically every member of the staff is a member of a few internal 
majordomo lists here in the company and the bounces would quickly 
pollute the lists.

The BSD vacation package requires you to unsubscribe manually to avoid 
this, but since the lists are all internal, perhaps I can have their 
name commented out by the program when they submit a vacation notice.
>
> I only participated *once* on bugtraq@example.com and that was 
> enough.
> In response to my mail I received a total of 38 "I'm on vacation" and
> Challenge/Response filter mails.
My experience on BugTraq as well.  At least, judging by the notices I 
recieved, I can say that Exchange is no better at handling this.

> You'd think that participants on such a
> mailing list would be a little more clued up...
I have no such expectations about our users...  ;-)

Thanks,
Jim