Johnson, Tracy writes:
>
> I wonder how many list subscribers
> it would take to could go on vacation at once
> and overload the list-server with autoreplies,
> that end up replying to others' autoreplies,
> that end up replying to others' autoreplies,

It only takes one e-mail client with broken vacation functionality to ruin
your whole day as postmaster.  Trust me.  The typical broken vacation
result is a mail loop, where the "out of office" message gets sent to the
list and sent back to the client which feels compelled to send another
"out of office" message back to the list and so on forever.
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