Out of Office AutoReply: Long calls no prob. says Telstra

[Reagan Blundell]

> Has any genius out there figured a way to stop these
> annoying "I'm away" messages from inflicting themselves
> on the lists.
> 
> I cringe when I plan to be away for more than a week
> and have to remove myself from all the lists I'm to
> enable a "holiday message" ;-)

Well behaved vacation programs will check various headers to determine if
a message is from a mailing list.  The best to check for is the presence of
a "Precedence: bulk" header.