Re: Suggestion to avoid repetitious answers. -Reply

>>> <DAsmussen@aol.com> 08/26/98 02:18am >>>

> Yes, and some of this has come from people that turned on
> "auto-responders" on their e-mail prior to leaving for vacation or
> other reasons.  Please remove yourself from the list(s) if you're
> going to leave for an extended period.

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Well, that's certainly one way to do it.  As another alternative: use
the filtering available in most Email packages, particularly since
SPAM has become a major issue (no, that does NOT imply this list
qualifies as SPAM :))  I have a particular rule that I turn on while on
vacation.  It scans the message text for the words "MAJORDOMO" or
"MIDRANGE-L," which appear in the trailer appended to every list
generated message.  When the words are found, the message is
deleted without reading or replying (sorry, but wading through
250+ Emails upon return from vacation is not my idea of fun :)).  This
rule is placed in front of the more typical "auto-respond while on
vacation" rule and volia - the list gets no auto generated traffic from
me (at least I don't think it does - I've never seen hundreds of replies
from me appear on the list, but maybe David intercepts them???) while
everybody else gets the "Sorry I'm not here" response.

Just a thought

Scott Cornell
Mercy Information Systems
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