[Asterisk-Users] Out of Office Auto Reply:

[Martin Joseph]

On Jun 22, 2006, at 10:12 AM, Colin Anderson wrote:

> He's probably using Exchange which has a global setting to either send 
> OOO
> replies to SMTP addresses or not. It's a dumbass Exchange 
> administrator who
> enables this option (it is actually on by default)
>
> Same thing happened to the mac-asterisk list last week, except the OOO
> message would reply to every post, and to every user. In a period of 2 
> or 3
> hours, I got a couple of thousand OOO replies from the offender. The
> solution was to unsubscribe since the list owner was out of town 
> apparently,
> and so the list members did just that - I think the only guy that was 
> still
> subscribed once the dust settled was the list owner and the tool that 
> set up
> the OOO message in the first place.
Actually there where 440 messages, and I didn't unsubscribe...

So your story is whacked...  As is the mac asterisk list.