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

[Richard Welykochy]

James Morris wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 15 Oct 1997, Rick Welykochy wrote:
> 
> > 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" ;-)
> 
> Mailing list software should include a "Precedence: bulk" header for
> messages sent to the list itself, which, in theory, should help
> "holiday" scripts/bots decide whether to reply to messages or not.

The above seems to be working for the list, in the case
I cited earlier. But sadly, it is not working for me when
I post to the list, i.e. I keep getting holiday notices 
from so-and-so whenever I reply to the list   :-[

 
> I'm not sure what packages of this nature are available for users as I don't
> tend to take holidays, although, when I do, I don't really give a toss if
> people know whether I'm on holidays or not.

Hmmm ... so if you are away for two weeks, your support
or  sales enquiries go unanswered?

Richard Welykochy

Dot Communications Ltd           tel: (02) 9281 1111
Level 19, 323 Castlereagh St     fax: (02) 9281 2219
Sydney NSW 2000