Greg,

It's a serious annoyance, a violation of both etiquette and protocol. Summary 
list removal (with notice) is indicated, but the main thing is that someone 
needs to step up to the plate and volunteer to take care of this task.

--Ian

On Friday 28 December 2007 14:12:58 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.
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