Well ... they might be doing this to themselves, if we're lucky. 
There email program sends an autoreply to the list, all the other 
people's autoreply functios reply to that autoreply, which then 
autoreplies prompting the other programs to autoreply ... and so on 
ad infinitum ...
I wish.
Phil

>That has been driving me nuts!
>     I recommend that all 1500 members set up a message rule to reply to the
>sender (not the histonet) every time we receive an out of office message
>flooding their server and having their administrator shut down their
>account!
>Mwahahaha,
>Amos the evil
>
>... That was a joke ... don't really do that, no sense giving the
>administrator a stroke, but it is an especially delicious idea isn't it
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Lee & Peggy Wenk" 
>To: "Histonet" 
>Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2002 8:25 PM
>Subject: HOW TO UNSUBSCRIBE
>
>
>>  Ok, it looks like it's time again to run this. I'm seeing a lot of people
>>  needing help:
>>
>>  PLEASE . . . remember to unsubscribe from HistoNet, if you are going to be
>>  away for the holidays. 1500+  people will be very irritated with you if we
>>  all keep receiving your "I'm away from the office" message for each
>histonet
>>  email.
>>
>>  So, print out the following. Unsubscribe before you leave, store the
>>  printout in a safe place, and re-subscribe when you return.
>>
>>
>>
>>  HOW TO UNSUBSCRIBE:
>>
>>  1.  Address a NEW email to Histonet (NOT to me! NOT as a response to
>someone
>>  else's email!)
>>
>>  histonet@pathology.swmed.edu
>>
>>  2.  In the "Subject" area (NOT the message area), type
>>
>>  unsubscribe
>>
>>  3.  Please note that this word is 11 letters long
>>
>>  u-n-s-u-b-s-c-r-i-b-e
>>
>>  Make certain all the letters are there, AND in the correct order (and
>>  without the hyphens).
>>
>>  4.  Do NOT write anything else, such as "RE:" or "Please" or quotation
>>  marks.
>>
>>  5.  Hit "Send/Transmit"
>>
>>
>>  TO RE-SUBSCRIBE WHEN YOU COME BACK:
>>
>>  1.  Print out this message, and place it in a safe place, so you can find
>it
>>  when you come back.
>>
>>  2.   Address  a NEW email to Histonet
>>
>>  histonet@pathology.swmed.edu
>>
>>  3.  In the "Subject" area (NOT the message area), type
>>
>>  subscribe
>>
>>  4.  Please note that this word is 9 letters long
>>
>>  s-u-b-s-c-r-i-b-e
>>
>>  Make certain all the letters are there, AND in the correct order (and
>>  without the hyphens).
>>
>>  5.  Do NOT write anything else, such as "RE:" or "Please".
>>
>>  6.  Hit "Send/Transmit". Wait a few minutes to 24 hours, and you should
>>  begin to receive the messages from Histonet.
>>
>>  Good luck.
>>
>>  Peggy A. Wenk, HTL(ASCP)SLS
>>  William Beaumont Hospital
>>  Royal Oak, MI 48073
>>
>>
>>

-- 
Philip Oshel
Supervisor, BBPIC microscopy facility
Department of Animal Sciences
University of Wisconsin
1675 Observatory Drive
Madison,  WI  53706 - 1284
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