On Dec 18, 14:08, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Don Maslin wrote:
>
> > > Thank you for your message. I will be out of the office
until
> > > Jan. 5th, 2004. If you require immediate assistance, please
> > > e-mail Mostafa El-Kassed at melkassed_at_scu.edu.
> > <BIG SNIP>
> >
> > Ross, it would have been nicer if you had remembered to delete the
> > digest with all 31 of its topics when you made your response.
> > Most of us have already read them.
>
> Don,
>
> This message was produced by an "out-of-office" auto-responder. I
suspect
> we'll be getting one of these every day until Ross gets back from
vacation
> (unless Jay temporarily unsubscribes him ;)
That shouldn't be necessary. Any half-decent autoresponder will keep
track of who it has responded to, and not send any more after the
first, to any given correspondent. Mind you, any half-decent
autoresponder will not append the entire message it's responding to :-)
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
Received on Thu Dec 18 2003 - 19:25:10 GMT