This is pretty easy to do if using Outlook by simply creating an "Out of Office" rule. 1. Open the "Out-of-office" assistant under the "Tools" Menu 2. Make sure the "AutoReply only once to each sender with the following text" text box is empty 3. Select the "Add Rule" option 4. In the window, put in the addresses of mailing lists and people you don't want to autoreply to in the "Sent To" section (i.e. gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx). Then click the "Advanced" button and select "Only items that do not match these conditions", click OK to close the advanced window. 5. In the "Perform these actions" box, select "Reply" and check on the template button. Type in a short message that you wish to use as your out-of-office notification. 6. Click OK, and make sure the "I am currently out of the office" option is set when you are actually away. Regards, Jamie Nelson | Systems Engineer | Systems Support, Information Technology | I N T E G R I S Health | Phone 405.552.0903 | Fax 405.553.5687 | http://www.integrisok.com <http://www.integrisok.com/> From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Darren Mar-Elia Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 9:50 AM To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [gptalk] list administrivia --- Out of Office notifications Hi Folks- Just a quick note to the GPTalk list. If you are subscribed to the list from an email system that supports Out of Office notifications, please turn off sending of those notifications to the list, so that folks posting here don't get barraged with everyone's vacation notices J. I'm pretty sure that if you are running Exchange, you can choose to selectively not send OoO notices to external addresses and that would be much welcome. Thanks, Darren