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Subject: Vacation messages
From: "Dr.Tony Helman" <helmant @ ozemail . com . au>
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 22:27:35 -1000
To: List-Managers @ GreatCircle . COM

> I am struck by the _distance_ that most people on this list seem to have
> from their users.  You always think about rewiring the machine rather than
> talking to the people doing all these dumb things!  This might be 

Not so much that (and my list is only 150 people) as the rapidity with which
a vicious loop of bouncing email can fill up your in-tray, way before you
get the chance to have a quiet chat with the originator (who is presumably
on vacation anyway!). 

Cyndi wrote:
> (vacation messages only send to the same person once until one
resets the program)

This is interesting. Do you mean these vacation programs keep a record of
who they have posted to regardless of what is in the in-coming email? That
would of course solve the entire problem, because then there would be no
vicious loops.

Tony Helman
<helmant@ozemail.com.au>



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