OT: Why out of office messages are evil.

[Jethro R Binks]

On Wed, 5 Nov 2008, Hugo van der Kooij wrote:

> Perhaps they can add a X-I-am-a-braindead-autoresponder header to those
> messages? Then we can just filter them out and be done with them on
> mailinglists.
> 
> Maybe we should write up a RFC to make it mandatory for any
> autoresponder. (BTW: anyone familiar with formatting a RFC style text?)

Someone already did, see:

http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3834.txt

and in particular the Auto-Submitted: header.

Jethro.

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Jethro R Binks
Computing Officer, IT Services, University Of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK