This is a new one on me.  I recently received an "X has received 
your messsage and will respond" note when someone subscribed to 
a list. I wrote the person to query it (receiving another 
receipt notice in reponse), and tell her that I'd have to set 
her NOPOST to avoid, well, you know what.  

She wrote back and said "That is my bounce back message at work. 
We are obliged to use them because of the freedom of information 
act" (this is from Britain).

Has anyone else heard of this?  If this actually were the case, 
I'd have assumed that we'd all have been flooded with receipt 
notices. Or perhaps it _is_ the case, and LISTSERV is silently 
dealing with it the way it does with other loops and various out 
of office bots?

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