First, I want to wish everyone a happy holiday, no matter what you're celebrating (just do it safely).
PLEASE, as many of you are going on vacation - do NOT use an autoresponder for your mail, OR if you do, please unsubscribe from Lingo-L until you get back.
Autoresponders ("hi-this-is-so-and-so-I'm-on-vacation-back-in-january") create problems when they respond to list messages, because it just makes new messages, which in turn make newer messages, and so forth in a loop, until it makes for 50 meg mailboxes for everyone. Then everyone's mad, and it takes me all day to sort out the problems.
Second, if you return from vacation and don't find any new Lingo-L messages daily, then you might have been temporarily disabled from the list. What happens is, if your mailbox gets full (via Lingo-L or anything), then all new messages get bounced back to the Lingo-L server. Eventually the server will determine it can't send mail to you any more and will disable you. We can't warn you about this, obviously, because we can't send mail to you in the first place. So if it's eerily quiet upon your return, and there aren't any new postings, then write us and ask (write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Generally there's some posting activity every day unless it's really a major holiday.
Stay warm and enjoy your holidays! (it's been below zero degrees fahrenheit up here in sunny NH lately).
Tab Julius
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p e n w o r k s c o r p o r a t i o n
software architecture + multimedia engineering
www.penworks.com
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