What! Are you an IDIOT?! On Monday 25 November 2002 09:25, Farnsworth, Dave wrote: > HELP > > -----Original Message----- > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 10:29 AM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > > SET ORACLE-L NOMAIL > > ---------------------- Forwarded by Linda Miller-Coker/JPMCHASE on > 11/25/2002 10:19 AM --------------------------- > > > Mailing List Administrator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 11/23/2002 02:18:44 > PM > > Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > To: Linda Miller-Coker/JPMCHASE@CHASE > cc: > > > *** IT IS IMPORTANT THAT YOU READ THIS MESSAGE *** > > Your message is being returned to you because of an error in your usage. > The > mailing list address you sent your message to was: > > Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Description: Oracle RDBMS Community Forum > Subject: Ignore Previous NOte > > Your posting has been rejected and returned to you because it appeared to > be a "vacation" auto-reply message. If you have received only one of these > notices, then please consider this a courtesy notice. If you received more > than one of these (perhaps many of these) notices, then your auto-reply > program is not cognizent of proper mail ettiquette and you must heed these > instructions in future situations like this. > > While you have an auto-reply responder turned on, all messages which are > auto-replied to the mailing list are sent to your mailbox AGAIN, resulting > in a quickly increasing endless-loop condition. This not only causes YOUR > mailbox to fill up, but it fills the mailboxes of every person who is a > subscriber to the list. This filter was put into place to avoid these > types > of endless-loop situations, and stop them before they get started. > > A more effective way of dealing with being on vacation is to TEMPORARILY > turn off messages from the mailing list. This doesn't require you to > unsubscribe -- it merely temporarily stops the flow of messages to your > mailbox while you are gone. In order to stop mailing list messages > temporarily, send an E-mail message to: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > And in the message BODY, include the following command: > > SET <mailing list name> NOMAIL > > Where <mailing list name> is the name of the mailing list for which you are > a subscriber. Note that you can use this at ANY time, and for any reason, > not just for vacations. Once you have returned from vacation, issue the > following command to resume mail service again: > > SET <mailing list name> MAIL > > If you use the two commands above, once before you leave, and then again > after you return, everyone will appreciate your consideration and respect > for the list. If you need to know which lists you are subscribed to, use > the following command: > > WHICH > > And finally, any time you need assistance with ListGuru, send the HELP > command in the message body for detailed help on using ListGuru. > > The body of your original message is being returned to you below. > > Thank you, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ----- begin returned message ----- > > Sorry guys and girls...going on vacation and sent the nomail to work spot. > > ----- end returned message ----- -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Jared Still INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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