It seems there are a number of list subscribers using broken vacation autoresponders. Autoresponders should only respond to a message that includes your e-mail address in a To: or Cc: header. If set up this way, they will not respond to mailing list mail. Unfortunately, there is a lot of broken mail software out there. As a courtesy to other mems-talk subscribers, the mems-talk moderation team will periodically try to detect broken autoresponders. If your autoresponder replies to this message we will disable your subscription. We will send another message to those people with instructions on how to re-enable their subscription. Regards, mems-talk moderation team at the MEMS and Nanotechnology Clearinghouse