The messages were sent to my yahoo over the Cox.net high speed internet, no
auto reply came with.  I have now sent a message to the cox email address and
the auto reply appeared. I sent to the cox email address from other accounts
in Outlook and the auto reply appeared.

At the add-in manager under advanced options there are Zipform 5 outlook
extension, exchange extensions property pages, and spamfighter helper outlook
extension. Not checked is Fax server extension.

At COM add-ins is Spamfigter add-in. Unchecked are Itunes and Mailbuddy
Outlook addin.

As to rules, I have rules for spam, spamfighter, 4 godaddy accts, and the 1
cox acct.

Thanks for staying with me.

I am pleased to advise that the problem has been found. In spite of whatever
mistakes or errors I made duriing my first use of this system, through the
efforts of f.h. we narrowed it down to Cox.net.  In my previous many, many
calls to cox about auto-responders and answerback systems, Cox claimed there
were none on Cox. Today I reached a level up supervisor who walked through
all the possible areas of settings where the problem could be coming from.
Cox has a function called "Vacation" - and there was the message! My thanks
to f.h. for the patience shown during my fumbling through the long exchange.
Shutting down Outlook was the turning point! Thank you once again, and my
apologies to those I offended with my "bottom posting" which I think I now
understand. Feel free to email me at dmarque1@cox.net with your correction to
my understanding and I promise you will not receive an auto-reply.

Not your problem - just a general rant on the uselessness of bottom posting.

Denis,

You didn't do anything wrong.  In fact, USENET standard is to bottom post,
that is, new data is added at the bottom of the message as opposed to the
top of the message.  This allows people to follow the conversation in an
intelligible manner.  The problem is that lazy people are not fond of the
format because it involves work:  you have to edit the post you're making so
as to keep the salient points available in the single post, while removing
as much of the extra text as possible, and when reading you have to scroll.
People who have been involved in the thread who are against bottom posting
get upset because they've already had to read everything, why should they be
forced to keep reading.

It's a long standing argument on USENET, especially since Microsoft came in
with a newsreader that, by default, ignored convention and stuck with top
posting at a time when 99% of the newsreaders bottom posted.

I don't know why Milly felt the need to post on this thread without anything
to add except starting a top post vs. bottom post flame war.

For more information on top posting vs. bottom posting, I'd look at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style.