if you want to do this job - just doit ;-) 
i can provide you the mails of the last 12 months ,-) but i will not
filter out what is vacation ,-.)
-steven
> -----Original Message-----
> From: swinog-bounces(a)lists.swinog.ch 
> [mailto:swinog-bounces@lists.swinog.ch] On Behalf Of Tonnerre LOMBARD
> Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 9:23 AM
> To: swinog(a)swinog.ch
> Subject: [swinog] [RFC] Automatic holiday monitoring tool
> 
> Salut,
> 
> Since we receive a bunch of out-of-office replies on every 
> post to swinog, why not use it for something useful? This is 
> what I came up with.
> 
> The german c't magazine is publishing an annual survey of IT 
> related jobs with regard to income and working conditions. We 
> could now monitor the amount of holidays taken per swinog 
> user and match it to their profession, so we get a clear 
> survey of how many holidays people may take if they have a 
> certain title.
> 
> For the technical implementation part, it would suffice to 
> install a mail filter on the mail servers of the most active 
> swinog posters. This filter would automatically authenticate 
> cryptographically to an interface and send the name of the 
> person it received an out-of-office reply from. The interface 
> would then deduce that this person is on a holiday, and 
> update its statistics.
> 
> This is valuable information! Maybe we should all 
> misconfigure our /usr/libexec/vacation in order to get better results.
> 
> 				Tonnerre
>