Re: Suggestion to avoid repetitious answers. -Reply

["Mike Shaw" <mshaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Scott,

The idea is to cut the volume of messages sent by midrange-l out to the list
subscribers.  If you are depending on your e-mail filtering, its too late in
that the listserv had to send it out.  Agreed, e-mail would be a bear
without filters.....

Mike Shaw
-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Cornell <CORNELLS@mercyhealth.com>
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Date: Wednesday, August 26, 1998 7:38 AM
Subject: 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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