On Jun 20, 2005, at 12:59 PM, Russ Hunt wrote:

> 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?

Its a new one to me. I would just sign the subscriber off the list and
recommend she use her own email address or a freebie one on
hotmail, gmail, or the like instead of her employer's email address.