Be very carefull when using auto-responders when you have subscribed to a mailing list. Consider the following senerio:
* A subscriber to a mailing list (call him Bill) sets up an auto-responder for his email and leaves for holiday. * The list Bill subscribes to sends out an email. * Bill's auto-responder replys to the list. * The list sends Bill's reply to all subscribers, including Bill. * Bill's auto-responder reply's *again* to the list. etc. The ensuing infinite loop of email messages has been know to bring down portions of the Internet (especially if Bill subscribes to more that one list or more than one person sets up such an auto-responder). Most mailing list administrators are aware of this and make their list's "from" and "to" addresses distinct to avaoid this problem, but I'd still check before setting up an auto-responder. I personally don't use auto-responders but I'd hope such a program would be smart enough to only send an automatic reply to the same address at most once. Keith -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
