Having received reports of rude out-of-office robot replies to
MapInfo-L messages, this message is being used as bait to find out
who is doing this. 

Here's the policy: If you go on vacation and set your robot to
brainlessly reply to all mail, including MapInfo-L messages, your
subscription to MapInfo-L will be canceled. You can resubscribe when
you return, but nobody on a mailing list gives a tinker's damn to
know you're on vacation while they are not. These robot messages are
annoying and they hurt the flow of the mailing list (who wants to
post messages when it causes a flood of out of office replies back
to their mailbox?)

The solution is to unsubscribe yourself from all mailing lists
BEFORE you set a mindless robot to managing your affairs while you
are gone. Out of Office replies should be used to inform people who
are directly and personally trying to reach you. They are
inappropriate for use with mailing lists. If you want to continue to
receive mailing list mail, then use a filter to route list mail to
special folders so that this  incoming mail won't trigger O. of O.
replies.

Thanks for your cooperation.
-- 
- Bill Thoen
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GISnet, 1401 Walnut St., Suite C, Boulder, CO  80302
tel: 303-786-9961, fax: 303-443-4856
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.gisnet.com
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