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RE: MG trip to England (Going off topic to Brewing Art)

To: "Larry Macy" <macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu>, <hert@worldaccess.nl>,
Subject: RE: MG trip to England (Going off topic to Brewing Art)
From: Phil <mgworld@chp.ltd.uk>
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 97 21:25:20 -0000
On 11/12/97 6:38 pm Larry Macy said

>As today is also my birthday so I remember Dan Hughes Day very well. On 
>Dec 11 of last year He set hi mail client to automatically respond to 
>messages in his in box as he would be out of the office until the 17th. 
>Every time a post from the MG list hit his mail it generated a auto 
>response and then that generated a new response and so on and so on. I 
>had to clear nearly 500 messages out of my inbox and that was after my 
>connection killed my mail (AOL) Some people had more messages. It tied up 
>the entire list for the better part of the day. Mark finally killed his 
>account and then went on to arbitrarily put all AOL users on the digest 
>whether we wanted to be there or not. The whole thing was a disaster for 
>one day. I am currently not on AOL for this list so I do not know if Mark 
>ever relented and let them off the mandatory digest ban or not. Now it's 
>a joke but that was a day from hell.
>You'll probably hear the same story from others so Sorry
Thanks, I have. Happy birthday anyway!

Cheers

Philip Raby
Editor, MG World
PO Box 163, Bicester OX6 3YS, UK
Tel: 01869 340061 Fax: 01869 340063 Mobile 0467 767361
www.chp.ltd.uk


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