Can I suggest that if people are going away for a holiday or whatever
that they unsubscribe themselves from the list to prevent this
autoresponse circuit?
I didn't do this and have just got back to find it has taken nearly half
an hour to download all of Nic Hawes autoresponses - thank God I didn't
set one up too!
Beckie
At 15:07 25/08/2001 +0100, David Steven wrote:
BTW this message generated 9
auto-responses.
David
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David Steven
River Path Associates
http://www.riverpath.com
t: 44 1202 849993
m: 44 7939 038832
Those of you who complain about autoresponders may be interested to
hear
that a N Hawe from the Cancer Research Campaign autoresponded to
this
message when posted to the Young Science Communicators group.
Unfortunately, his auto-response went to the group, not to the
original
author. N Hawe then autoresponded to his own autoresponse - and so
on,
with a new mail generated every two minutes. After 450 or so mails,
someone emailed the list to complain - to which N Hawe also
autoresponded. He is now sending two mails every two minutes.
800 mails and counting - it could be a long bank holiday
weekend!
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