Re: Abwesenheit
On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, Florian Weimer wrote:
> > Is there a reason not to simply read the "Precedence: list" header
> > and simply not respond at all ?
>
> "Precedence: list" is non-standard. Technically speaking,
> RFC-compliant software should not use it. 8-/
That's not quite correct, software MAY use it.
RFC3834: Recommendations for Automatic Responses to Electronic Mail:
- A responder MAY refuse to send a response to a subject message
which contains any header or content which makes it appear to the
responder that a response would not be appropriate. For instance,
if the subject message contained a Precedence header field
[I4.RFC 2076] with a value of "list" the responder might guess that
the traffic had arrived from a mailing list, and would not respond
if the response were only intended for personal messages. For
similar reasons, a responder MAY ignore any subject message with a
List-* field [I5.RFC 2369]. (Because Precedence is not a standard
header field, and its use and interpretation vary widely in the
wild, no particular responder behavior in the presence of
Precedence is recommended by this specification.)
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