Re: vacation

[Shyamal Prasad <shyamal.prasad@sbcglobal.net>]

    "Paul" == Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org> writes:

    Paul> On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 02:46:20PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen
    Paul> wrote:
    >> i'm going away for the weekend, and want to put up an
    >> auto-responder to let people know that i will be away.

    Paul> Oh, please don't.  You wouldn't believe how annoying those
    Paul> autoresponders are on a mailing list when they can't figure
    Paul> out who it really came from.

A properly setup/designed auto-responder should not respond to mail
that originated in a mailing list. In recent years Microsoft Outlook
has given autoresponders a really bad name.

Cheers!
Shyamal