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By Heinz Tschabitscher, About.com Guide to Email since 1997

How to Set up an Out-of-Office Vacation Auto-Response in Windows Live Hotmail

Thursday September 11, 2008
Elephants trumpet, and they also rumble. Elephant kids do neither.
If you've ever tried to get a sound — any sound — out of a trumpet, you know that trumpeting is a difficult skill to learn. Small elephants snort and sniff, too, until they master trumpeting, and their voice changes during adolescence until they can really rumble — communicate with very low sounds.
The deep rumbles, many so low that humans can barely hear them, travel easily and allow elephants to communicate over 10 km (6 miles). In the ground, the rumbles may be felt up to 30 km (20 miles) away.
With Windows Live Hotmail, you, too, can communicate while you're away. It's not nearly as earth shaking or functional — but you don't have to learn trumpeting:
›› Let Windows Live Hotmail reply to incoming emails while you are unable to.

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