Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site opus.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!cires!nbires!opus!rcd From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn) Newsgroups: net.wanted Subject: Re: Mail Demons Message-ID: <657@opus.UUCP> Date: Tue, 31-Jul-84 21:14:42 EDT Article-I.D.: opus.657 Posted: Tue Jul 31 21:14:42 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 4-Aug-84 01:08:19 EDT References: <599@ihopb.UUCP> Organization: NBI, Boulder Lines: 12 >I have at times seen mention of mail demons which will do some >processing (like send a reply) on one's incoming mail. This sounds >very useful for vacations, etc.. Uh, nice, but have you seen the apocryphal story about someone sending a colleague a piece of mail just before turning on the vacation-mode-mail- answerer and leaving for vacation? Seems he sent that piece of mail to someone who also had the vacation-mode-mail-answerer enabled...and the obvious happened. -- Dick Dunn {hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd (303)444-5710 x3086 ...Keep your day job 'til your night job pays.