It so happened, one member of a Yahoogroup that I am member of married (a girl) and immediately left for France for a long honeymoon-cum-business trip in the first week of this month. Before leaving, he turned on the on-vacation auto-reply feature on his email account. Anybody who sends him an email now gets a "I'm on vacation, but I will reply after returning" message generated automatically by his mailbox.
The problem that has so resulted, is that any email sent to the Yahoogroup reaches the honeymooner's email account and makes it generate the automated vacation reply. Since an email sent to a Yahoogroup comes back to the sender, the automated vacation reply reaches back to the mail account in question and elicits another auto-reply. An infinite loop takes over and there's mayhem! Like testerday, group members exchanged some 25 emails all of which invoked the honeymooner's mailbox to go into an infinite loop and fill the Yahoogroup by over 400 vacation auto-reply mails in the past 24 hours.
The honeymooning couple, meanwhile, are understandably, err.. honeymooning in Paris, completely cut-off from the Internet, oblivious to the whole thing. The Moderator, who can block the honeymooner's emails until his return, is away reporting the earthquake in Kashmir.
Any solutions? :D
Sunday, October 16, 2005
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6 comments:
LOL.....nice infinite loop that....in case its not too big a group, why dontcha guys switch over to digest or reading on the web till sire and madame return :D
Tsk tsk.. let em honeymoon..dontcha dare dishtub em ;)
Well, to think of it, this will be a hillarious memoire for their anniversary celebrations, from u guys' side !
I wonder what wud happen if everyone started using auto-reply.. :D
It is from "Listening to Conflict" by Erik Van Slyke. I am caught off-guard with the term 'scientology', dunno wat it means! :p
p.s. By da way tel me something, now dat I'm suddenly active on my blog (though it has been there for almost a year!), I hve discovered many things, one being ad-sense.. does it work, I mean do they really pay ?!
things back on line, honeymooners back to their worktables :D
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