> In most cases, it is impossible for me to tell. I very aggressively > filter my email. I just checked, and it appears that this list (unlike > many others) does indeed only send a single "out of office" per person. > I wonder how they do that?
It's the client, not the mailing list server. The "vacation" client receives a message from a particular address, responds to it, and marks it as "I've already told this one I'm out" for a period of time (settable by the client). If you're gone more than the period of time, the program responds again. > However, I do maintain that it is impolite. Even if there is only a > single email of this type per person, it is distributed to a LARGE > audience. This costs the Marist university bandwidth, even if nothing > else. Tacky, but probably unavoidable, and often not under the user's control. At least recent versions of most of the corporate email systems have learned not to reply more than once (DO YOU HEAR ME, LOTUS? HUH? Can someone PLEASE upgrade all those Notes v5 servers out there....) -- db ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
