Amanda-Users

Re: vacation programs seem problematic on this list

2007-12-28 15:19:42
Subject: Re: vacation programs seem problematic on this list
From: Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 AT duke DOT edu>
To: Greg Troxel <gdt AT ir.bbn DOT com>
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 14:37:29 -0500 (EST)
On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 at 2:12pm, Greg Troxel wrote

Every time I post to an amanda list, I get several notices that people
are on vacation.  This is in violation of RFC 3834:

 http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3834

The problem seems much worse on this list compared to others (perhaps
the same on -hackers), almost to the point where I am disinclined to
reply to people's questions, except that I don't post often enough to
remember this the next time.  I'm curious if others are having this
problem, and whether a policy of summarily unsubscribing people with
misconfigured mail systems is in order.

It's a problem on most lists I'm on (the various RedHat lists, for me, are worse than the amanda lists), and, if you dig, the culprits are almost *always* Exchange or Lotus Notes users. I know, big shock.

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Joshua Baker-LePain
QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin
UCSF