At 6:11 PM -0400 9/17/97, Jacob Haller wrote: >A guy subscribed to one of our mailing lists via a web interface. > >He had an automatic little vacation program set up on his account. > >The message telling him that he was subscribed was sent to him. An >autoreply was generated. >[...] >The first symptom noticed at our end was that the LISTSERV postmasters >received 400-odd bounce messages from his account. The second was that he >called us up and got kinda irate. You know-- that -does- take a lot of nerve, considering it was his autoreply which created the problem in the first place. >It took us a while to figure out what had happened, so I'm passing this >along in case any of you find yourselves in a similar situation. I really -hate- that sort of autoreply nonsense. It's caused me lots of headaches in the past. --Julie -- [log in to unmask] http://drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu/~julie/ "Opus told me that his six-year pickled-herring habit ended after reading the Compassionate Cook. He discovered the rutabaga frappe recipe and has been practicing it ever since." --Berke Breathed