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[Matthew Newton]

On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 06:15:16AM -0400, Arran Cudbard-Bell wrote:
> Our of interest, is there an RFC or some kind of standard for
> out of office notifications, so that they don't get sent to
> mailing lists?

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

Shouldn't respond to messages where your own e-mail address isn't
in the To: / Cc: / Resent-To: etc headers. And there are other
headers such as Precedence that also indicate the correct
behaviour.

> I'd of expected a much higher incidence of this than we
> currently see.

There are probably more people with clue on a list like this, than
in the usual corporate world.

Matthew


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