Actually, it's partly the e-mail client's fault.  Outlook recognizes who has
already been sent an out-of-office reply and won't send one on subsequent
receipts of e-mail from that sender.

At least, that's the way it works here.

YMMV,
Don Harrington
Sr. Systems Analyst
Facilities Applications Support
Shared Services Group
The Boeing Company
P.O. Box 3707 M/C 6C-AK
Seattle, WA  98124-2207
(v) 425-234-1145 (f) 425-234-0464 (p) 206-797-6360

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-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Brandt [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 9:57 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Amisys email list -> Thanks!


At 09:42 AM 3/12/2002 -0800, Jim Chance wrote:
> > . Don't use the auto reply feature of your e-mail program
> > when
> > subscribed to the listserver.  Many people will enable
> > the auto-reply
> > feature when they go on vacation, but forget that this
> > can cause an
> > infinite loop - which sends tens and even hundreds of the
> > 'I'm on
> > vacation' messages to all the other listserver
> > subscribers.  Either do
> > not use the auto-reply feature, or unsubscribe from the
> > listserver
> > before you enable the auto-reply feature.

Advice I wish everyone on this list would follow.

--------------------------------
Tom Brandt
Northtech Systems, Inc.
313 N. 1st Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48103
http://www.northtech.com/

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