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From: steve@ivaux.UUCP (Steve Lemke)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: autoreply & autoreply & autoreply & autoreply & (you get the idea)
Message-ID: <291@ivaux.UUCP>
Date: 2 Apr 89 20:35:39 GMT
References: <198697@hrc.UUCP>
Reply-To: lemke@apple.ucsb.edu (Steve Lemke)
Organization: Computer Products Design, Santa Barbara, CA
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In article <198697@hrc.UUCP> dan@hrc.UUCP (Dan Troxel) writes:
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}I have set up autoreply on my system. When I mail a message to a person
}with his autoreply on, we both keep sending each other our autoreply
}message over and over again due to the new mail in our mailbox. How do 
}I stop this?

You think that is bad - how about when my roommate set that up before leaving
for a week, and then a bunch of mail came in from an automated mailer (he is
on a "mailing list").  Well, guess what - autoreply sent a reply to each
incoming message, which went back to the "repeater", and each of his replies
got mailed to everyone on the mailing list, including himself, which then
generated that many more replies going back out, and so on, and so on...
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