[SI-LIST] OT: Backscatter
- From: "J.D. Bakker" <jdb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 00:01:38 +0200
[according to Google it's been a while since this was discussed here]
Hi all,
This is getting silly.
After my earlier reply in the "Mixed digital/RF board with switching
power supplies"-thread, I received no less than 64 out-of-office
autoreplies:
- 9 from cadence.com;
- 8 from mentor.com;
- 3 from each of xilinx.com, emc.com, altera.com and agilent.com;
- 2 from each of ti.com, synopsys.com, samtec.com and motorola.com;
- 1 from each of vitesse.com, unisys.com, solectron.com, silabs.com,
sanmina-sci.com, rambus.com, pmc-sierra.com, nokia.com, mindtree.com,
mei4pcbs.com, mc.com, maxtek.com, lsi.com, infineon.com,
ianmartin.com, hp.com, freescale.com, flextronics.com,
exgate.tek.com, cypress.com, avid.com, avagotech.com, ansoft.com,
alliedtelesis.com, adaptec.com, actel.com and Prenhall.com.
A few months ago Orin Laney wrote:
>I'm hesitant to reply to the entire list, because the automated "out
>of office" replies are a pain in a tender place. Why there isn't a
>facility to suppress auto responses to list servers speaks to why so
>much software is terrible -- it's written by programmers rather than
>by users.
Most out-of-office (or 'vacation') scripts are programmed not to
reply to mailing list articles -- many programmers are subscribed to
several such lists, and they know how much of a pain these messages
are.
Funny thing, out of these 64 autoreplies, 61 had this header:
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5
By comparison, in my 1056-article SI-list backlog, only 341 have been
routed through any version of Microsoft Exchange.
JDB.
[preparing for the next wave]
--
They're all fools. Don't worry. Darwin may
be slow, but he'll eventually get them.
-- Matthew Lammers in ASR
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