Re: An idea for you Mike Herbert B. Chermside 22 Jul 2002 13:57 EST

Mike, if you give us a script for an OOO response, we can all use it, and
not bother our colleagues on this, or other, Listserves.

Chuck

At 02:01 PM 7/22/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> >Say Mike, just a thought: is it possible to teach the serv computer to
> >automatically not send any email with the phrase "Out Of Office" in the
> >subject line?
>
>Unfortunately, no.  The ListServ actually catches most of them... you
>should see my logs!  It's only the non-standardly formatted ones that get
>through. Most OOO responders follow the Internet Standard (tm) and reply to
>the actual sender of the message rather than the ListServ.  That's why all
>of you get about 5-10 OOO messages when you submit to the list.
>
>The only recourse we would have is to turn the list into a moderated list,
>but I don't have the resources (read:  time) to moderate the list.  I
>always liked the faster pace of an unmoderated list anyways.
>
>--- Mike Varney / RESADM-L Administrator
>
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