at the temporal coordinates: 12/21/01 8:52 AM, the entity known as Peter
Andrews at pandrew3_at_bigpond.net.au conveyed the following:
>
> Don't!!!!!!!
> If you set it incorrectly you can flood the list in about 300 seconds.
> VIZ... you email sends a note to the list to say your on vacation. Your
> reader also gets that note to say you are on vacation and your reader
> responds with ANOTHER NOTE TO SAY YOUR ON VACATION which your reader also
> gets to say your on vacation, then Woo sends in another gem of information
> and your reader sends another note to say that your on vacation while the
> fist note is still being responded to the second note from Woo begins it all
> over again.
>
> I have been called in to turn off servers that have over 50,000 emails in
> under an hour because everyone then starts to complain onlist that someone
> should do something about it and all those notes also generate the same note
> over and over again.
>
> So my advise as an administrator is just go on vacation, leave your reader
> as it is now. And when you come back everyone will still be on speaking
> terms with you.
>
> PeterA
>
>
>
> P.S. Stupid question, How does one set vacation mode?
>
>
Ummm... I think you've got it drastically wrong! I believe 'vacation mode'
is where the list server stops sending to your e-mail address until you tell
it to return to normal status. This is NOT the same as setting up your
local machine (or ISP) to reply to any incoming mail with something like
"So-and-so is not here right now and will return on xx/yy/zz." I seem to
recall that this list is set up in some way to prevent things like bounced
messages from inundating the list.
I don't personally know how to set 'vacation mode' but I bet it's on the
newtontalk.net webpage.
- Eric.
--Eric Strobel (fyzycyst_at_NOSPAM^mailaps.org)
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