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
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