On Fri, 7 Feb 2020, at 19:21, John Levine via mailop wrote:
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.
+ RFC 3834 from 2004, and speaking of procmailrc
* !^FROM_DAEMON
which includes `* !^Precedence: (list|junk|bulk)`
--
-- Andreas
:-)
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