<snip> > Complain all you want. Dump him if you like. But somehow I don't think some > of the recent posts are going to help him plead his case, that the automated > system should not reply to a mailing list. </snip> I don't particularly care what people use to access the LUGML, but that game changes a lot when what they use affects other LUG members. That said, I don't really give a flying fuck what his jobs admin thinks of our ethics, morals or tone of voice. This is our mailing list not his admins. Our tone of voice, objectionable as it might seem, does not eat away resources of people unbidden. Everybody who recieves mail from the list-serv does so because she or he opted in. I don't recall the LUGML users opting in to having their mailbox spammed by some anal retentive corporation. Maybe we should make it policy that auto-responders get dumped after one direct warning... But since this person has not bothered to respond I say lets dump him anyway. If he wants to be on the list then he can disable the responder or find someone who'll give him a decent mail account. Samir M. Nassar RedConcepts.NET - Open Source, Public Service http://www.redconcepts.net