Re: I-D Recommendations for Automatic Responses to Electronic Mail

Keith Moore wrote:

> draft-moore-auto-email-response-00.txt
I've been thinking about the taxonomy. I'm wondering if it would be more
useful to describe automated messages in terms of:

  notifications -- informs of issues related to transfer, delivery and
     processing, such as hotword rejections, virus alerts, vacation,
     and so forth

  confirmations -- informs of intermediate success and requests 
     additional information, such as file-robot and mailing list
     confirmation messages

  thank-you -- informs of successful processing, requires no additional
     input or processing

we can describe the various return addressing rules, structure and so
forth in the context of the type. "thank-you messages and their replies
can be freely discarded" for example.

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