At 20:30 2001/07/13 -0700, Murray Charters wrote: >Hi jp, >Autoresponders are software programs that can reply to different >sources - you can have them reply to either the from, return-path >or reply-to headers of incoming email or to the 1st or 2nd email ID >in the body of the email. > >Depending on the configuration, an incoming e-mail will trigger >an automatic "answer" to the "individual" that posted the message, >even though a LISTSERV acts as an intermediary.... > >Type PromaSoft in Google... (I b'lieve they have a freeware >autoresponder you can download 'n play with...) > >All the best ....... murray > >[log in to unmask] hi murr yep i know what auto-responders are it was the inter-action with the listserv that i didn't get we had some activity here a couple of years ago when the list configuration was changed from reply-to list to reply-to sender which was given a trial of a month or two and then was changed back i had done some reading in detail on the subject then l-soft were doing their darndest to keep the auto-repliers and spammers out of their 46,000 list owners' hair and had configured listserv to verify valid e-mail addresses it seems odd to me that we have been getting auto-responder messages only in the past few weeks maybe there's a new auto-responder program on the market which has been taught new tricks so do we know how the mjff situation got resolved? did jeff holder let us know? janet janet paterson: an akinetic rigid subtype, albeit perky, parky . pd: 54/41/37 cd: 54/44/43 tel: 613 256 8340 email: [log in to unmask] . snail mail: 375 Country Street, Apt 301, Almonte, Ontario, Canada, K0A 1A0 . a new voice: the nnnewsletter: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/janet313/ . a new voice: the wwweb site: http://www.geocities.com/janet313/ . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn