> However if list owners don't have enough sense to put the appropriate
> 'Precedence' header in the mail sent through their list then indeed
> they deserve every "vacation" response they get back to the list.

Whatever gives you the idea there is such a thing as "the appropriate
owner should select a value?  (I looked at RFCs 822, 1122, and 1123, to
no avail; perhaps I missed one.)

> [...] and  have it pay attention *only* to the 'Precedence' header to
> determine if it needs to respond or not.

What on *earth* could a Precedence: header have to do with whether
vacation should respond?  This is a leap of (il)logic I completely fail
to follow.

					der Mouse

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