Maybe we can add an admin function that I have seen used on other list
servers where there are easily 200 emails in a day.  This ability might be
dependent on STJOHNS.EDU's server setup.

It might go something like this...

When you go on vacation, send the following message:
  TO: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
(I'm just making this up for the example)
  SUBJ: <leave blank>

  set bp nomail

To switch back to "mail" format, send the following message:

  TO: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
(I'm just making this up for the example)
  SUBJ: <leave blank>

  set bp mail

- Pam

-----Original Message-----
From: JRhodes [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 2:20 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Like being out of the room


Is there a simple way to put BP on hold?  If I go away for a week, I have a
LOT of email to go thru when I get back, and don't end up reading all of it.
When I do this with the postal service I get all of my mail at once when I
return...what I'm thinking about is simply missing the week's banter and
picking up again when I'm among the present.

What prompts me to ask is the agonizingly slow email pick-up service I get
when I call in from my hotel room, especially after a weekend of creative
writing.  (Don't tell me I need a better service, or more time, more
patience, or better social sense.  I know that.)

Else...I'll just glean the wheat from the chaff, the puerile from the
potent, or as Pam put so elegantly, the signal from the noise-when I get
back.

Perhaps we need TI ratings...indicating "Contains Technical Information that
may be of interest to those with short attention spans."  Or alternatively
PP ratings for Puerile Patter.  Or AR ratings for Anatomical
References...sqwerrls, skunks, etc.

Rate this one RI Righteous Indignation.
Rev. Rhodes

VOTE HERE: To terminate puerile preservation prattling among pals and the
uncoffeed, send a message to [log in to unmask], in the body
of the message <NOT the Subject:> enter SIGNOFF BULLAMANKA-PINHEADS.