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From: cfchiesa@bsu-cs.UUCP (Christopher Chiesa)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Batch Queue VMS Mail Answerer
Message-ID: <2640@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 18 Apr 88 02:09:51 GMT
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
Lines: 18
Keywords: Answer Mail While Not Logged On

Some time ago I wrote a DCL command procedure which, when submitted to run as
a batch job, would sit there and answer your VaxMail.  It's nothing fancy,
i.e. it doesn't know WHO it's replying to (just knows there's a message there
to be replied to), and sends out only a form letter hard-coded into the pro-
cedure itself.  But from what I've seen, there are people here who could hack
it into something even more impressive.

I won't waste net bandwidth posting it now, "out of the blue," but I hereby
solicit responses from anyone interested; if there's enough interest I will
post it.  It's fairly short, and please don't waste typing energy saying "who'd
want a program to do THAT?"  It started out as a "novelty," and I consider it
such.

Chris Chiesa


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