Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 00:02:04 -0500 (EST)
From: Rob Earhart <rob(_at_)andrew(_dot_)cmu(_dot_)edu>
With feature tests, it's possible to write a script which will work on
older implementations and take advantage of newer features (vacation, some
sort of persistant storage, a small AI, a way to access a list of
known spammers, etc...).
Why not do this on the client, which needs to do it anyway to get the
communication with the user right?
Otherwise, there's no good way to alert the user that "Hey, that vacation
thing you thought you had -- well, you didn't."
--
Tim Showalter
tjs+(_at_)andrew(_dot_)cmu(_dot_)edu