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From: sid at mindless.co.uk (Siraj 'Sid' Rakhada)
Subject: lists, autoresponders, and netiquette

--On Thursday, May 27, 2004 3:57 pm -0500 Michael Williamson 
<michael@...fin.tamucc.edu> wrote:

> Every time I post to a list I get these "out of office" auto-responses.
> Can these responders be configured to not respond to stuff from a list?

The autoresponders are meant to ignore mails with Precedence: bulk - they 
obviously don't.
If you want to tell people, you should try to get them to ask their 
out-of-office-reply software to look at that field.

Sid