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List:       ms-cifs
Subject:    Vacations
From:       "Steve Pruitt (Beyond Help)" <v-stevpr () MICROSOFT ! COM>
Date:       1997-06-06 12:46:48
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Since this is the season when many people take their vacations, I
thought many of you should read the following excerpt from our Mailing
List Users Guide...

If you won't be checking your mail for more than a few days, you should
consider switching to a digest subscription or stopping the list
messages entirely during that time.  Otherwise, if you're subscribed to
one or more of our highly active lists your mailbox could fill up during
your absence.  Besides being a nuisance when you return, this can cause
you to miss important messages.  The "mailbox full" errors also could
easily cause you to be removed from the lists, as described in the
previous section You May Be Removed From a List.

If you use any form of AutoReply message, particularly the automated Out
Of Office messages supported by some e-mail systems, and you receive
individual messages from the mailing lists your AutoReply messages may
be sent to everyone who posts a message to the mailing list during your
absence. In addition, if the mailing list system probes your account to
validate your e-mail address, your AutoReply messages will be treated as
errors and you may be removed from the list.  These probes are sent 30
days after your last message posting or status change, so the following
suggestions prevent that problem as well.

You can easily prevent these problems by switching to a digest
subscription before leaving, and switching back to a regular
subscription upon returning. If you don't want digests while you're
away, set your subscription options to NOMAIL.

Before leaving, set the desired option by sending e-mail to
LISTSERV@LISTSERV.MSN.COM (LISTSERV@MICROSOFT.EASE.LSOFT.COM if you use
The Microsoft Network for your mail) with the one of the following
commands in this message text:

SET * DIGEST
SET * NOMAIL

Upon returning, use the corresponding command to return to your usual
option:

SET * NODIGEST
SET * MAIL

The * (asterisk) notation will cause the commands to be applied to all
Microsoft mailing lists to which you are subscribed.


Steve Pruitt
List Administrator
mailto:v-stevpr@microsoft.com

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