Steve, I got your message twice! AOL..?

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> From:         Stephen R. Gregory[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent:         Monday, October 11, 1999 10:47 AM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Re: [TN] Double e-mail response
>
> In a message dated 10/11/1999 12:10:56 PM Central Daylight Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> << He everyone,
>
>  Does everyone receive double responses when you are the initiator of
> the
>  original e-mail message?  Same individual with two different e-mail
>  addresses.  Why is this?
>
>
>  Jim West
>  Manufacturing Engineer >>
>
> Hi Jim,
>
> If there is two different email addresses in the subscriber list of
> the
> server, there will be an email sent to each one. The server
> is just a dumb server it only knows email addresses. BUT, if there are
> two
> emails sent to each email address, it may be because
> of the way the account is set-up, could be that the account is set to
> REPRO,
> that means that the server will you back a copy of any
> email you send it, plus the broadcast message that it sends to the
> whole
> TechNet list. Below I've pasted some commands that you
> can send the server to customize your account. There's one there that
> a few
> people need to use when they are going out of their office
> on vacation or something and they turn their autoreply on. It's the
> set
> NOMAIL command. It will stop the server from sending mail to you
> until you're back in the office. It just bugs me a little to get
> 5-different
> auto-replies saying that they won't be back in the office when I make
> a post to the list...
>
> -Steve Gregory-
>
> P.S. This stuff is on the IPC Web site too...that's where I pasted it
> from...
>
>
> Additional Commands:
>
> SET <forum name> <option>
> Command enables/disables a specified option.
>
> EXAMPLE:
> TO: [log in to unmask]
> SUBJECT:
> MESSAGE: SET TechNet nomail
>
> Please note that the commands, addresses and forum names are not case
> sensitive, and you can send as many commands as you need in one
> message as
> long as they are on separate lines.
> The available options are as follows:
>
> Options:   Query  This command returns your subscriber options. To be
> executed correctly, the message must be sent from the address about
> which you
> are making a query. The syntax is:
> QUERY <forum name>
>
> Also, wildcards are supported. For example, sending a command
> QUERY *
> will return a list of all forums to which you are subscribed, with all
> subscriber options for these forums.
>
>
> Mail/Nomail  Setting the NOMail option stops mail from the forum to
> you, but
> leaves you subscribed to the list. NOMail is often used by subscribers
> who
> are leaving the office for vacation or an extended business trip, and
> do not
> want a full mailbox when they return.
> Setting the Mail option is the complementary command that restarts
> mail
> delivery from the forum to you. It does not alter the Digest/Index
> normal
> delivery settings (see below).
>
> For example, to temporarily disable mail delivery from TechNet to your
> address, send the following command:
>
> SET TechNet NOMAIL
>
> Please note, if you use an auto-responder while on vacation without
> setting
> your subscription options to NOMail, your "vacation" messages may
> bounce back
> to the mail list and you may be "served off" from the forum when you
> return.
> This is because the server will be unable to process the message from
> your
> auto-responder and will consider it an error. Being "served off"
> simply means
> that any commands you send to mail list will be ignored until the
> forum
> administrator restores your normal status.
>
>
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> ---------
> -
>
>   Digest/Nodigest  Setting the Digest option causes the subscriber to
> receive
> one e-mail posting per digest cycle (typically daily) rather than
> individual
> messages as they are processed by the mail list. Digest negates Index
> delivery mode, enables mail delivery.
> Setting the NODigest option causes individual messages to be sent to
> the
> subscriber.
>
> For example, to start receiving the TechNet messages in digest form,
> send a
> following command:
>
> SET TechNet DIGEST
>
>
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> ---------
> -
>
>   Index/Noindex  Setting the Index option causes the subscriber to
> receive
> one posting per digest cycle, containing only an index of subject
> topics for
> all messages during that cycle. Instructions on how to retrieve the
> individual postings are included with the index. Index negates Digest
> delivery mode and enables mail delivery.
> Setting the NOIndex option causes individual messages to be sent to
> the
> subscriber.
>
> For example, to start receiving TechNet messages in index form, send
> the
> following command:
>
> SET TechNet INDEX
>
>
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> ---------
> -
>
>   Search  This command allows you to search a database of all previous
> postings to the specified forum. The syntax is:
> SEARCH <search string> IN <forum name>
>
> For example, to search TechNet for gold plating, send the following
> command:
>
> SEARCH gold plating IN TechNet
>
> Adding SINCE <date> after the forum name will impose the time
> constraints on
> your search, i.e., command
> SEARCH gold plating IN TechNet SINCE 97/01/01
> will search all postings since January 1'st 1997.
>
>
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> ---------
> -
>
> ACK/NOACK  When you send a message, the server responds with a
> confirmation
> message, saying that "your message was delivered to the forum, etc.",
> but, by
> default, the copy of your message is NOT sent to you. In other words,
> when
> you send a message to the forum, you do not receive it back as a
> posting.
> However, you can change this default for yourself by setting following
> options:
>
> ACK - A short confirmation message is sent to the sender of the
> posting
> (default)
> NOACK - No posting acknowledgment is sent
>
>
> Repro/NORepro   REPRO - You receive a copy of your own postings
> NOREPRO - You do not receive a copy of your own postings
> For example, to receive both confirmation of the posting and the
> posting
> itself for your TechNet submission, send a command:
> SET TECHNET REPRO
>
> To receive only your posting but not the posting acknowledgment:
> SET TECHNET NOACK
> SET TECHNET REPRO
>
>
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> ---------
> -
>
>   THANKS  You can send this command to see if the server is alive, and
> the
> messages to and from the server are delivered normally.The server
> politely
> responds, "You're welcome!".
>
>
>
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