Anybody using any of the various auto responders, vacation, out of the
office, etc. programs need to make sure that they DO NOT respond at all to
messages to list servers. I just made my first submision to the new ebase
list server and got one auto response (nameless - offender has been
notified). The potential is for users who submit mail to the list to get
thousands of auto replies. This will quickly discourage anyone who replies
to the questions to stop doing so. If people continue to abuse the system, I
will ask that they be removed from the list.

There are good, friendly auto response programs out there. Some are just
plain broken, in particular almost all of the roll your own variety.
Correctly auto responding is a very sophisticated problem.


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