Dave wrote: > > Our subscribers get very upset when somebody turns on their "vacation" > program and every message to the list results in an "out of office" > message being sent to the entire list. > > I was always under the impression that it was a misbehaving "vacation" > program that was the cause of this. But several subscribers state that > "most other list I subscribe to has > technology in place that will catch out-of-office messages." > > Is there something I can do with the list configuration to stop the > distribution of these messages? The list is a discussion group, so it is > set up in such a way that replies go to the list. > > If not, is there at least some specifics I can give my subscribers about > why it is their fault that this is happening? I still a pop mailbox and a shell script in front of various LISTSERV addresses on our servers to weed out misdirected bounces and out of office messages. The short answer is, I doubt you'll be able to configure LISTSERV to eat those for you; the vacation messaging process is at odds with the standard, not LISTSERV, and LSoft in the past has made it clear that they won't wander from the standards. Al -- Al Iverson -- [log in to unmask] -- Minneapolis, Minnesota My spam-related website: http://www.spamresource.com/ Support Jazz in Minnesota! -- http://www.mnjazz.com/ All opinions are mine alone unless I state otherwise.