McKown, John wrote:
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 depends on the email-client/-setup, but typically it would work along the lines of "vacation" : check if an auto-response was sent to the sender in the last X days if yes, forget it. if no, send a response and record who it was sent to.
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.
It is perhaps a little impolite, yes, but bandwidth is cheap and the costs are negligible. Also, the list has only 1462 subscribers, it's not excessive. /Per Jessen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
