On Sat, 22 Dec 2001, Bruce Dawson wrote:
> *I* think we should drop the automatic "Welcome" response and just have
> whoever reads the "info" messages to just send the canned reply if the
> message warrants it. We can have scripts automatically create the reply
> if we want. My major fear is that someone will end up getting a canned
> response when they just wanted someone to answer a question.
I think we should do *both*. There are times where I just want to give
someone an email address they can ping and get an auto-reply; there are
times where someone wants to ask a general meta-question.
Perhaps this: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> would just go to people, with perhaps, a
small "We got your mail; give us a {day, week, month} to get back to you"
auto-reply, but nothing more. Then create another alias perhaps,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, that will send information? Even better, if the reply
sent from there, if in turn replied to, would start the subscription
process.
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Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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