On 20 Feb 2001, at 13:11, Fred Karp wrote: >Someone goes out on the road for a week or three and wants an autoreply to >his or her email. We want first either to set that person to NoMAIL for >each list or to exclude those lists from the autoreply. This discussion probably needs an "autoresponder" list to move to but.... I think a well-designed autoresponder should send mail to defined "safe" or desirable recipients _only_, as opposed to the existing crocks that I'm aware of that respond to everything except (maybe) clearly ID'ed "not-safe" recipients. Screening messages with an RFC821 "from:" that starts "owner-" will screen all LSoft Listserv messages, even obscure or forgotten ones in other domains. But then you have lists transmitted by Majordomo, Listproc, PostOffice etc plus Cousin Remus wrote-it-hisself that get inappropriate (possibly loop inducing) responses. And the usual non-list inappropriate recipients of auto-responders like spammers (bounce) forgers (possible loops) and creepy people who decide to drop by your home to play with your stuff while you're on vacation. -Kary