eleanor, bert has given the commands available to any of us. The commands setting the number of days in a vacation, are available only to list admins. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eleanor Burke" <eleanorburke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 9:52 PM Subject: [vip_students] Re: Vacation Status for Lists How is this done flor, how do you set up the vacation period with freelists? Eleanor ----- Original Message ----- >From: "Flor Lynch" <florlync@xxxxxx> To: <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 6:15 PM Subject: [vip_students] Re: Vacation Status for Lists > Hi Tony, > > It can depend on the list provider. In the case of freelists, you can set > your vacation to, say, 7 days, or 14 days. You will not receive any > messages from that list on those days for which the vacation has been set. > yahoogroups is different. other providers have their own rules. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tony Sweeney" <tonysweeney1@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 3:28 PM > Subject: [vip_students] Vacation Status for Lists > > > Hi All, > > I would like to know that when you request 'vacation from a list are those > emails still there for you on your return? > > The problem is thatI am on one or two highly-trafficked lists and don't > want > to be confronted with hundreds of mail on my return! > > Thanks > > Tony > > -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 5.7 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 974 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message