> I disagree. If I set up a robot reply tool I would never want this tool, > as my agent, posting to mailing lists > and I cannot think of a single mailing list that would want me to inform all > the members of my absence for every message someone posts to the list. Be that as it may, I belong to some lists where some subscribers faithfully warn the list in advance that they are about to go out of town. I have yet to find any value in that information, though. On this subject, let me make one further remark: a vacation program should not reply more than once to any single correspondent. I know there are programs around that are careful in that regard, so don't tell it's hard to keep track. John