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From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: net.wanted
Subject: Re: Mail Demons
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Date: Tue, 31-Jul-84 21:14:42 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 31 21:14:42 1984
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>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.
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