Some email systems let you set up an automatic response for your email when
you travel. Typically these systems are used to reply to any incoming
email with a message saying something like "I'm out of the office until
next week."
It appears that many Bioacoustics-L subscribers are using these response
systems, with the result that anyone who posts a message to Bioacoustics-L
now receives a sizable glut of automatic responses. (It's worst around
Christmas, but it's bad enough right now.) Unfortunately there doesn't
appear to be any automatic way to prevent these responses for
Bioacoustics-L postings. So I'm asking you to do it manually: if you use
such an automatic response system, please put your Bioacoustics-L
subscription on hold before leaving.
To put your subscription on hold, simply send the message
set Bioacoustics-L mail postpone
to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . When you return and have disabled your automatic
response system, send the message
set Bioacoustics-L mail ack
(or "set Bioacoustics-L mail digest" if you prefer daily digests) to the
same address. You'll then receive a compendium of Bioacoustics-L messages
posted since you sent the "postpone" message.
Thank you,
Dave Mellinger, list manager
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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