Lanny Marcus wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 6:16 PM, William L. Maltby > <CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com <mailto:CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com>> wrote: > > > On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 22:26 +0200, Sorin Srbu wrote: > > >-----Original Message----- > > >If I send him a message directly, and put him in the CC line > too, will it > > >start a loop of auto-replies...? > > >How about I set up an account somewhere (gmail..), turn on a > vacation > > >message , and then send him a message..... > > >Just thinking.... > > >Dennis > > > > You geeks have too much free time on your hands. ;-> > > And we intend to keep it that way by not having to pore through useless > automated trash postings caused by some "non geek"(?) having the > attention span of a gnat and forgetting to account for things like these > lists in his stupid vacation (or whatever) automated replies. > > Alternately, we could avoid posting about such stuff until the > responsible list person is able to handle it. But where's the fun in not > picking on some hapless idiot? > > > I think people who use auto responders for their normal email account > should get an additional email account, for the mailing lists they > subscribe to, and NEVER use an auto responder on the email account for > their mailing lists. This happens frequently, on this mailing list and > on others. > What was really bad - I worked at a company that had the bright idea of automagically copying the marketing director with all tech support mail so that he could see the kinds of issues customers were having. I have no idea what they were thinking, it seems to me those kind of e-mails would be useless. Anyway - he went on vacation, and every customer mailing us with a tech support issue got an auto-responder from him stating that he would get back to them in 7 to 10 days ...