From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/44278 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Russ Allbery Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Feature Req: set vacation for mailing lists in bulk Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 13:23:24 -0700 Organization: The Eyrie Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87n0w7obe7.fsf@cs.utah.edu> <6uy9frtorx.fsf@zork.zork.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1018729884 30429 127.0.0.1 (13 Apr 2002 20:31:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 20:31:24 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16wUB8-0007uY-00 for ; Sat, 13 Apr 2002 22:31:24 +0200 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16wU4y-0008KT-00; Sat, 13 Apr 2002 15:25:00 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 13 Apr 2002 15:25:09 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA02373 for ; Sat, 13 Apr 2002 15:24:56 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 18371 invoked by alias); 13 Apr 2002 20:23:32 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 18365 invoked from network); 13 Apr 2002 20:23:31 -0000 Original-Received: from windlord.stanford.edu (171.64.13.23) by gnus.org with SMTP; 13 Apr 2002 20:23:31 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 25033 invoked by uid 50); 13 Apr 2002 20:23:24 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: <6uy9frtorx.fsf@zork.zork.net> (Sean Neakums's message of "Sat, 13 Apr 2002 19:52:02 +0100") Original-Lines: 20 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090005 (Oort Gnus v0.05) XEmacs/21.4 (Common Lisp, sparc-sun-solaris2.6) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:44278 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:44278 Sean Neakums writes: > commence Karra quotation: >> How do people handle the problem of setting vacation flags for tens of >> mailinglists in a sensible and easy manner. > I don't. Sending at most one automatic vacation message in response to > private mail is fine, but mailing lists do not need to be cluttered up > with worthless "I am on vacation, if you need anything, please contact > Sheila across the hall or John in Accounting" messages. If the people > on certain mailing lists *need* to know you are on vacation, please take > five minutes and write them a personal note. They will appreciate it. Er, I don't think you're familiar with what the original poster is talking about. The "vacation flag" is a list setting that leaves you subscribes but that temporarily suspends having the list send you mail. It's a LISTSERV feature originally (and that's where the naming comes from). -- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)