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  Msg # 332 of 4021 on ZZNE4432, Sunday 5-13-23, 4:46  
  From: BEN PFAFF  
  To: THOMAS G. MARSHALL  
  Subj: Re: Auto-plonk message idea (??)  
 XPost: comp.programming 
 From: blp@cs.stanford.edu 
  
 "Thomas G. Marshall"  
 writes: 
  
 > Is this ok for a newsreader to do? 
 > 
 >     1. If a user is bozo-bin'd by you, then 
 >     2.    /IF/ he responds to a post of yours, then 
 >     3.        Your newsreader replies with post with the subject: 
 > 
 >         " automatically ignored by newsreader" 
  
 No.  I've seen this occasionally on newsgroups.  It annoys the 
 hell out of everyone else.  I usually end up killfiling the guy 
 who does the autoreply. 
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