Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!vortex!lauren@rand-unix.ARPA From: lauren@rand-unix.ARPA Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Problems with automatic (\"answering machine\") mail responders Message-ID: <11405@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Sun, 7-Jul-85 21:33:06 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.11405 Posted: Sun Jul 7 21:33:06 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 9-Jul-85 06:01:58 EDT Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Lines: 8 Luckily, that scenario doesn't happen very often, since many (but not all) of the responders are smart enough to send only one copy of the message to any single person, regardless of the number of messages received. But this doesn't help with large mailing lists. If you're addressing 20,000 people, and only 1% have responders turned on... well, it's still a lot of junk mail. --Lauren--