On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 23:30 +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote: > > > Can somebody please put this gentleman no-mail, as he obviously hasn't done > so! What we need is an RFC that specifies a particular header be used for out of office type replies, and then we need mail clients to implement that RFC when sending an automated response. Then the mailing list can simply filter such messages based upon the header and send it to /dev/null rather than send them to the list. X-Auto-Response: whatever That sounds good to me. Maybe two headers .. X-Auto-Response-Start: start date X-Auto-Response-End: end date