You sweet and evil boy!
But you have pointed out something rather important. By accident we can
leave ourselves open to Machiavellian people (like you?) who will trip us up
just because they can!
I found that my own rule seems to reply to the Hellenic Postmaster (and
dammit I can't make it reply to Helena, because this is Outlook!). So
Helena will never know, except by reading this thread (I think I would
delete all DP stuff after a vacation, too much to read) or by the unnamed
postmaster getting upset on her return.
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[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jethro R Binks
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 9:24 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [data-protection] Vacations and NOMAIL
On Sun, 27 Jun 2004, Roland Perry wrote:
> Meanwhile, you can filter all the Helenaic emails into a separate
> folder, or avoid auto-replying to them yourself, if you set up a rule
> to spot header lines like:
>
> "Return-path: <>"
Offtopic for this list, however:
This is the wrong fix, even if it works, and will cause other problems.
The real fix is for the list operators to unsubscribe the guilty party, and
for everyone else to learn to use deficient auto-reply mechanisms, or
clients with them. Broken autoresponders are not acceptable on any email
list.
Meantime, all posters (I guess I will get one soon too) know Helena is away,
probably where she works, when she's back, and that her office and home are
likely unattended. If you're feeling malicious and you know she's the only
person who deals with SARs or FoI requests, it suppose it would be a good
opportunity to stick one or two in and have maybe a week or two of the time
limit pass before she even gets to look at them.
Jethro.
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Jethro R Binks
Computing Officer, IT Services
University Of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
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