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 CHI-WEB Info and Archives: http://www.acm.org/sigchi/web/