Russ Hunt wrote (excerpt);

> I have a bit of boilerplate I semi-automatically send people who set
> oofbots (and not just on my own lists), but I've tried to make it,
> um, polite, because most people still have no real idea what the
> structure of the net is and don't realize that all the subscribers
> to the list are being told, though they don't care, that you've gone
> off to a conference . . . and often, once it's been explained,
> they're grateful.

We do much the same by setting them to Digest mode. Our change template
tells them why it's been done.

Regards,

William Hudson
CHI-WEB Moderator

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