On Thursday, December 12, 2019, 11:52:42 AM PST, Mark J Bradakis via Mgs
<mgs@autox.team.net> wrote:
> So Dan sets up this vacation response program and goes on his merry
> way. He gets a message from the MG list. His program responds to the
> MG list with his 'out of the office' canned response. The MG list gets
> his response, and sends it out to the list. Dan's autoresponder gets a
> copy of his 'out of the office' and responds by sending his canned
> response to the list...
Sounds like an early version of Microsoft Outlook, which happily sent
vacation messages to the same sender over and over and over...
And being a Microsoft product, broke many more rules and conventions
for email. Like top posting, rich text, etc.
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