Bill you're no fun. When that happens everyone on the forum must immediately set up a rule to automatically reply to the OOO sender.
This usually clears the problem up in about an hour. <evil grin> On 10/20/05, Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hardware- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gary VanderMolen > > Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 4:01 PM > > To: The Hardware List > > Subject: Re: [H] auto reply ? > > > > In this day and age of spoofed spam, Out-of-Office > > autoresponders are not appropriate. If you receive spam > > on that account, and the From address is some innocent Joe, > > he will get the Out-of-Office notice. SpamCop has been > > urging its reporters to report this type of misdelivered email > > as spam. That can cause problems with your ISP. > > > > Gary VanderMolen > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > how do I get outlook express to auto reply to incoming mail ? > > > > > > like when *out of office* > > > Not to pile on here, but I've got my own horror story of ineptitude and > "Autoresponders." > > Years ago, I belonged to some mail list similar to this one, but it had > significantly more members and was really active generating a lot of mail. > > Some guy in San Diego belonging to the list, took a long weekend off. Before > he > left his office, he flagged all his email accounts INCLUDING his mail list > subscription to "autoreply" that he was out of the office and would not return > until one early Tuesday morning.. > > You know where this is going.. > > Every message to the list generated an auto-response from this absent member > that he was out of the office until Tuesday. And that message was, of course > sent to every one else on the list. This was on a Sunday... He's not coming > back > until Tuesday... > > Early that Sunday morning I watched this debacle unfold over a period of 4 > hours. Within that time frame, I received roughly 60 messages per hour, until > about 2PM when I'd received over 200 messages, all from Mr. Weekend who could > not be contacted in order to stop the flood of emails. Every list member > received the same amount of mail. I calculated that by the time Weekend Boy > returned to the office, every member would have received nearly 1,000 messages > based on list traffic. Someone would write to the list, "Turn it off," that > would generate an auto-reply. People would plead with the List admin and each > email would in turn generate yet another auto-reply.. and on and on and on... > > The guy was sending the mail from some corporate hospital account in San > Diego. > For some reason that I can't recall, the List Admin was not able to stop the > auto-replies from hitting every member's mailbox every few minutes. Can't > recall > why.. > > Finally, I had to make a series of desperate long distance calls to the > hospital's IT Dept. in San Diego. Took about an hour. Finally someone, off > duty, > with appropriate authority was contacted, had to drive to the hospital, was > able > to access this members account and disable his autoresponder. > > What a nightmare.. Autoresponders.. Yuk... > > Bill > > > > > > > > -- G. Waleed Kavalec http://www.IslamAwakened.com/Quran ---------------------------------------- Bush's War Killed New Orleans
