[pca] vacation mails to the list

[Ron Halstead]

Thank you Martin.

On 05/12/11 11:29 PM, Martin Paul wrote:
> Paul B. Henson wrote:
>> On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 11:47:34AM -0700, Ron Halstead wrote:
>>> Please turn off your DAMN vacation notice. It is cluttering up the 
>>> list.
>>
>> Already had that conversation with Don; seems the official oracle
>> vacation message app is horribly broken -- it both replies to mailing
>> list traffic which isn't specifically addressed to the user, *and*
>> replies to every single email, rather than only once in a defined
>> interval.
>
> Correct. It seemed to have been fixed at some time, but it has started 
> again.
>
> My new policy on the list is that any member will be set to the 
> "moderated" status when an auto reply is sent to the list from his 
> address for the first time. For non-posters this doesn't make a 
> difference anyway. I will remove the "moderated" flag on request, when 
> the list member confirms that the vacation mailer has been fixed.
>
> Hope that's fine for everybody.
>
> Martin.
>
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