Winship wrote on 08/10/2006 02:50:33 PM:

> Well, they *are* going to reply, and they *will* be upset that you 
didn't
> read their replies (you said you don't want to read any replies) and
> respond.  Doesn't matter what you say in the "noreply" email, they 
*will*
> do it and *will* be upset at their replies being ignored.  They would 
much
> prefer sending an email reply over physically going to your office or
> hanging around for lord knows how long trying to wade through your
> automated phone system (if you have one), or being "on hold" for ten or
> fifteen minutes.

Not to mention the time savings by having prewritten responses to the top 
15 questions that will get asked by the students.  The trick is to make 
sure the canned response truly answers the question that was actually 
asked.