The auto-response feature is very helpful, but it is difficult to set one message for all responses, when the response needed varies by experience.
Ideal, would be the ability to set auto-responses depending on what experience you are a part of, and even more ideal would be the stage you're at (pending match request, match confirmed, matched to students, etc.)
This would allow us to keep auto-responses on, but communicate as needed with whoever is in different stages of the programming process.