Why not treat vacation insults like persistent delivery problems?
In other words, automatically unsubscribe the perpetrators.
Everyone makes mistakes now and then, but anyone not competent enough
to pick half reasonable software has no business bothering the IETF.
Let 'em use http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/ietf/Current/maillist.html
if they can't handle big kids' toys.
If you don't like that, how about blackholing (e.g. procmail, DCC, or
sendmail pattern match) anything with the taint of
"Internet Mail Service (5.5.2651.58)" or
"Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21)"?
Vernon Schryver vjs(_at_)rhyolite(_dot_)com
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I will be out of the office in training the week of July 17 - 21 and on
vacation the week of July 24 - 28. I will return to the office on Monday,
July 31st.
I will be checking messages and responding as I'm able while attending
training, however I will be unavailable while on vacation.
Have a nice day!
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] I will be back on Monday , 24th July 2000. Contact via:
] reinhold(_dot_)feigel(_at_)ties(_dot_)itu(_dot_)int or
] reinhold(_dot_)feigel(_at_)marconi(_dot_)com
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