One of the most consistently rewarding features of listserv is its ability to intercept (some) "out of office" messages and send them to the list-request address. I'm wondering, though, where the parameters for interception are stored and whether a listowner can tweak them. There seem to be three categories: OOO messages that get intercepted, OOO messages that go back only to the sender, and OOO messages that get posted to the whole list. I can't see what triggers each, but I'd be happy to try to figure it out. Warning members to set nomail (or asking them if they really _need_ the damn things) is pretty ineffectual. -- Russ St. Thomas University http://www.StThomasU.ca/~hunt/