As a mail-order retailer, we've seen the same "ping-pong" effect with our
customerservice mailbox where people ask a question and then have an
auto-responder which causes our automatic acknowledgement process to start
the ping-pong again. After accidentally flooding someone's mailbox with
hundreds of mail (they sent the request Friday and it ping-ponged all
weekend), I modified the automated acknowledgement code to count the number
of "that you for your mail" messages sent in 1 day to the same person and
stop after about 5. I'm not sure how that would work with a mail list;
please don't give me the opportunity to find out.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rakesh Goyal - Sysman, Mumbai, India [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 1999 9:01 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: KHOO Guan Chen; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: John Bechtel's out of town message.
>
> This may not be Melissa. John has set the auto-responder on. Any
> message, which goes to John's box is auto responded with the pre-set
> message. The fun is if some one else on the list also sets his/her
> auto-responder on and there is ping-ponging of auto-resonded
> messages between the two (John and the other person) and all other's
> in the mailbox have their mailboxes full with these messages.
>
> In fact, John would have done it for internal and external messages.
> But, auto-responder does not distinguish between individual message
> and message goes to whole world on the list. So, we have atleast
> 20+ messages from John in the last few days.
>
> Well let John come back. John is advised not to put auto-responder
> on, on a mailbox, which is subscribed to mailing-lists.
>
> Rakesh Goyal
> Director
> National centre for Research in Computer Crimes, Mumbai, India
> ----------
>
>
> On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, W.C. (Jay) Epperson wrote:
>
> > >
> > > This is not funny anymore. Perhaps your computer has been blessed by
> > > Melissa?
> > >
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > >
> > > Richard KHOO Guan Chen
> > >
> >
> > As a Groupwise user, he's probably not susceptible.
> >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, John Bechtel wrote:
> > >
> > > > I will be in Houston Mon and Tues. I can be reached there by calling
> 214-634-4141.
> > > >
> > > > Also, I will be out Wed morning for a GroupWise seminar in N. Dallas
> from 8:30am-12:30pm.
> > > >
> > > > I expect to be back in the office Wed afternoon.
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