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June 23, 2007 12:03 AM
Broken: New Yorker auto-responder email
Mark Chackerian writes:
I sent a letter to the editor, to the New Yorker. I received two automated responses:
1) an automated reply -- "Thanks for writing" etc. etc.
2) the same automated reply, with this return address: Out of Office AutoReply: A Letter to the Editor "themail, TNY" <TNY_themail@advancemags.com>
If I'm getting an automated response from a computer, how can the COMPUTER be out of the office?
I guess the computer is in the Hamptons for the weekend.
I guess that the original response email was CC'd to someone else (the editor?) who was out of the office and returned that message.
It's a good job you weren't out of the office too... otherwise your respective computers would have spent the entire weekend emailing each other.
^And imagine what would happen if both computers had email programs that quoted the message they were replying too:
[quote][quote][quote][quote][quote][quote][quote][quote][quote][quote][quote][quote][quote][quote][quote][quote][quote][quote][quote][quote][quote][quote][quote][quote][quote][quote][quote][quote][quote][quote][quote][quote][quote][quote][quote][quote][quote][quote][quote][quote][quote][quote][quote][quote][quote][quote][quote][quote][quote][quote]...
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FIRST! FINALLY!
Anyway, this is just broken and stupid. Still, barely anyone writes to the editor, I guess (because it's so badly written). VERDICT: BROKEN!!!!!!
Posted by: Maxaxle at June 23, 2007 06:48 PM