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Re: Abwesenheit



* Peter Palfrader:

> 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.

But it is discouraged to set it (see RFC 2076).

Personally, I don't see any problems with evaluating Precedence:
headers in autoresponders.  However, several large mail vendors used
to argue that they do not want to rely on this officially discouraged
header. 8-(



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