Autoresponders are the work of the devil and should be avoided at all costs.
One forum I subscribed to had a fellow that set up an autoresponder for every email he received advising he would be out of the office for two weeks. Of course it replied to every message from the forum, including his replies. It generated thousands of messages in a matter of hours. This was long ago and I was traveling at the time, using 1200 baud dial-up in truck stops to get my mail. I was limited to 20-30 minutes at a time, but if I did not download all the pending messages, it started all over again at the next connection. To this day, folks on that forum occasionally recall the "Faron Oscillator", named for the poor guy who made the error. Michael On Wed, Jun 26, 2019, 10:13 Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> wrote: > On Wed, 26 Jun 2019, wes wrote: > > > It just means that someone subscribed to the list and then set up an > > auto-responder. It happens. > > Wes, > > Oh. Okay. > > Thanks, > > Rich > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
