Good idea. Just followed suit.
John
----- Original Message -----
From: Frank van Lindert <lindertv@xxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 3:38 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] Please do something about Rick Beckrich's auto reply
> Maybe sending him a few 10-megabyte attachments will help. His
> provider will probably cut off his email service after the mailbox is
> filled up.
>
> For the time being I will put Rick in my kill-filter.
>
> Frank van Lindert
> Utrecht NL.
>
> On Wed, 12 Apr 2000 21:31:29 -0400 (EDT), Dan Lau
> <dlau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >Well, it appears that Rick went on vacation and set his mailer to
> >send out auto replies. For every message anyone on the list send
> >out, Rick's mailer will send out one auto reply, which will be
> >forwarded to Rick's mailer, which will send out another auto reply
> >and so on and so on... Eventually all of our storage devices will
> >be filled with Rick's auto replies. There was a Unix legend about
> >these auto replies bringing down the "net" as it existed in the
> >early '70s.
> >
> >So, should someone call Scott Smith or Roderick Lewis at
> >1-800-517-7370 as Rick suggested and have them turn off the auto
> >reply for Rick? Since this is an "urgent matter".
> >
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