I agree with steve...Have to deal with 270 e-mail after one week on trip is pain...If you guys get 270 auto-reply...someone is going to use few words which required a "V-chip"... jk At 08:54 PM 1/9/00 EST, you wrote: >In a message dated 01/09/2000 6:25:14 PM Central Standard Time, >[log in to unmask] writes: > >> Steve I believe what you are looking for is in Format on the front screen of >> your Outlook. Click on out of office assistant and a screen will appear >and >> you can put whatever message you want to appear in the box. Just click ok >> and you should be all set. If someone wants to contact you they will know >> that you will be gone during a specific time frame and wait. >> >> Ron Hollandsworth >> ITT >> [log in to unmask] > >Hi Ron, > >That's true, but then you'll send an auto-reply email to the TechNet which >gets distributed to the whole list...that's what the ListServe commands are >trying to avoid. I think ideally, we are a passive list...that when messages >are sent to the list, we want to have some content that is >meaningfull...(whatever that means) not to know that someone is on vacation, >or out of the office...(kinda' pisses me off to know that others can get a >break once inna while...I'm saying that jestingly...hehehe). > >It's really easy to set the listserver commands...I think that's the best way >to deal with vacations or absences.... > >-Steve Gregory- > >############################################################## >TechNet Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8c >############################################################## >To subscribe/unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in >the body: >To subscribe: SUBSCRIBE TECHNET <your full name> >To unsubscribe: SIGNOFF TECHNET >############################################################## >Please visit IPC web site (http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm) for additional >information. >If you need assistance - contact Gayatri Sardeshpande at [log in to unmask] or >847-509-9700 ext.5365 >############################################################## > ############################################################## TechNet Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8c ############################################################## To subscribe/unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the body: To subscribe: SUBSCRIBE TECHNET <your full name> To unsubscribe: SIGNOFF TECHNET ############################################################## Please visit IPC web site (http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm) for additional information. If you need assistance - contact Gayatri Sardeshpande at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5365 ##############################################################