From: Price, Jamie (jprice@xxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Fri Aug 25 2000 - 21:14:19 GMT-3
"quickley turn on your out of office daemon and see how fast the loop
grows"
Dont laugh - I've seen that happen - a guy I once worked with was on a
list where he had the ability to set auto-reply to his account - then
set auto reply to his account at work at 5pm and walked out the door
to go on vacation. The first message he got at his work account from
the list generated an auto-reply, problem was the auto reply set the
mailing list itself in the "To" box, not the user that sent it. In
turn the mailing list recieved an auto-reply - obviously his account
was on the list - can you spell LOOP.
It was a government mailing list too - I went to a client site
(government) at 7:30am on Monday and I heard a yell come from a cube
just over from me - "Who the &$#@ is this xxxxxxx dickhead? I've got
7 and a 1/2 thousand auto-replies in my inbox from him". For reasons
I know not of, his account stayed active at work until 3pm that
afternoon - by which time the entire State of xxxxxxx (try to retain
some privacy) was almost brought to a standstill.
Funny as hell but somewhat harrowing too for those concerned.
-----Original Message-----
From: dwyer@tatrc.org [mailto:dwyer@tatrc.org]
Sent: Friday, August 25, 2000 5:04 PM
To: Stylen; ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: Re: turn off Out of Office replies
hehe
we should all reply to them when we get them and the person will
have several hundred more emails when they get back. "Oh I didn't
know you were out of the office, thanks for letting me know. I will
keep that in mind next time I post to Groupstudy, yada yada
yada...."
Or group them all into a global address, reply to them all at once,
then quickley turn on your out of office daemon and see how fast
the loop grows.
LArry
Stylen wrote:
As a courtesy, can you please turn off out of office replies for
messages sent through this mailing list, everytime i post a
message, i get between 6 and 10 out of office messages from
people. Richard Foltz, CCNP, CCDP, MCSE+I, Network+, A+
Technical Solutions Consultant
Sprint ENS12-4/5 @ Halifax
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