Tim: >> There's a few other pains that are near the top of my mailing list >> aggrevations, too: People sending vacation auto-replies to lists with >> hundreds of members. People using a challenge/reponse anti-spam system >> on their mailing list subscriptions. Those who do those stupid things >> deserve a few hundred replies back from the list members. I belive the >> traditional Unix response is a multi-megabyte core dump. Les: > Perhaps in colleges or other places where people who are not mature > congregate such actions may be deemed proper, but in here??? > > Lets not get our knickers in a knot. This is a public forum and we > would like it to remain so. Please keep such tendencies to yourself. I make the core dump comment more in jest, than anything else. And, I suspect, that most people probably couldn't do it without some reading, first. However, someone so daft as to send such notices to a list with several hundred members does deserve finding their mailbox stuffed full of several hundred replies. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.22.1-33.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.