On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Martin Helin wrote: > Hi colleagues, > > I just joined this list and apologize if this question has been covered > recently (in which case I will start digging in the digest). I could not > find an answer to it in the LISTSERV documentation either. > > Is there are a way to direct automatic out of office type of replies from > list members (to the sender of a message) to the list owner(s), for example? > I have been running two lists (now using version 1.8d) for over 10 years > but this is the first time annoyed users (= 2...) would like to get rid of > the automatic vacation replies. > > Naturally something can be done on the member side (e-mail client) also but > with over 2 000 list members I am very reluctant to start giving any advice > on how to configure various e-mail clients so that automatic replies will > not be sent to list (senders). This has indeed been discussed quite a bit. The short answer is "no". There's no way to automate the way Listserv handles vacation notices. What I do is manually set such subscriptions to NOMAIL whenever I find a subscribe has invoked a vacation notification feature. If you're really curious, do search this list's archives for this subject. You'll find quite a bit there, but it all boils down to what I said in the previous paragraph.