Simon Nield wrote: >can we just start banning people who go away on holiday and leave their= mail system to autoreply ? Would be nice. I think it s perfectly OK, just the list admin send them a short info= message about they are cut off, and why, and link to the piclist.com URL= how to (re)subscribe. Another idea: can the list server automatically filter out messages from= autorepliers? Detecting "Autoreply from" or some clever header analysis i= do=B4nt know of? No big deal if it miss some autoreplies, or ditch some messages the sender= just have to think, reformulate, and resend if so is. /Morgan -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body