I am on a holiday but will respond tou your message assoonasIreturn

[Otto Haliburton]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Will Sani
> Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 7:31 PM
> To: 'General Red Hat Linux discussion list'
> Subject: RE: I am on a holiday but will respond tou your message
> assoonasIreturn
> 
> LOL, you guys crack me up...
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-
> bounces at redhat.com]
> On Behalf Of Daniel
> Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 4:30 PM
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: Re: I am on a holiday but will respond tou your message as
> soonasIreturn
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Linux" <linux at rogernet.org.uk>
> To: "Mollatt Ntini" <mntini at mweb.co.zw>; "General Red Hat Linux discussion
> list" <redhat-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 11:46 PM
> Subject: Re: I am on a holiday but will respond tou your message as soon
> asIreturn
> 
> 
> > On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 15:23, Mollatt Ntini wrote:
> >
> > > Why the heck should we receive this on a public list???
> > we should not.
> > Why the heck do we receive this on a public list ?
> > because the sender forgot when he turned on his out of office assistant
> > or vacation notifier.
> > It's a bit early to tell but it looks like at least it is a only once a
> > day per address notifier not a blind reply to anything received.
> > As I said it might be a bit early to tell eh could be receiving in
> > digest but at least that would help anyway.
> > Regards Roger
> 
> Hello People,
> 
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> I hope this helps.
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> Dan L
> 
> --
this is very helpful, but let me make a observation, there have been more
replies to this message than auto-replies to the list, so the responder sent
one auto-reply and there have been 6+ replies to the auto-reply.  If it had
been ignored this thread would be dead.