out-of-office messages?

[Amy L Sheldon]

On Sat, 14 Aug 2004, Sally McConnell-Ginet wrote:

> And it is apparently continuing.  Like Janet, I've set up a filter,
> but the messages do still come in even tho' they are immediately put
> in the trash.  Should perhaps the whole list be shut down and then
> relaunched?  Sally

	I second the motion.  amy

>
> >It's been a major problem Megan
> >
> >I have temporarily solved the worst of it by using a "Rules Wizard"
> >rule to move the offending emails to my delete box as they arrive
> >
> >I specified that the messages to be deleted had in the sender box the phrase
> >devnull at MAIL.USYD.EDU.AU
> >
> >it seems to be working and if you find it works for you, you might
> >like to let others know
> >
> >
> >Janet
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Megan Crowhurst [mailto:mcrowhurst at MAIL.UTEXAS.EDU]
> >Sent: Saturday, 14 August 2004 3:26 a.m.
> >To: FLING at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
> >Subject: out-of-office messages?
> >
> >
> >Dear Flingsters,
> >
> >Given (literally hundreds) of error messages I'm receiving from a
> >member who is out of the office, I suspect you're getting many 'out
> >of the office' messages too.  I'm afraid (short of deleting the
> >member temporarily) from the list, there isn't anything I can do
> >about this.  Probably, the problem is that the member has set the
> >email program to reply. It's an interesting problem, because I don't
> >think we've encountered this before! (Any idea what might be
> >happening?  This isn't an attempt to single out the member, just to
> >work out the problem in order to make suggestions about how to solve
> >it...)  Of course, maybe it doesn't bother you-plural.  Let meknow!
> >
> >All best,
> >Megan
> >
> >--
> >
> >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >Megan J. Crowhurst, Ph.D.
> >Assistant Professor
> >
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> >
> >The University of Texas at Austin
> >Dr. Crowhurst
> >Department of Linguistics
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> >
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> >
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