I swear, if one more person sends me a freaking ‘i am out of the office’ reply
in response to a MAILING LIST MESSAGE, I’m going to track down their IP and run
the recent DCOM exploit on them…
WTF makes people think they should respond to a mailing list like that?
Furthermore, when I sent this message the FIRST time, it was rejected because it
contained the string ‘out-of-the-office’ in the subject.
On second thought, I now know when these people are out of their offices,
perhaps I should break into their buildings and steal all their stuff 
–
Real Programmers use COPY CON PROGRAM.EXE
Hello stevie-o,
I receive this kind of letters too. I do not know what is up either?
Anthony
“Stevie-O” ??? news:xxxxx@ntdev…
>
> I swear, if one more person sends me a freaking ‘i am out of the office’
reply
> in response to a MAILING LIST MESSAGE, I’m going to track down their IP
and run
> the recent DCOM exploit on them…
>
> WTF makes people think they should respond to a mailing list like that?
>
> Furthermore, when I sent this message the FIRST time, it was rejected
because it
> contained the string ‘out-of-the-office’ in the subject.
>
>
> On second thought, I now know when these people are out of their offices,
> perhaps I should break into their buildings and steal all their stuff
>
> –
> - Stevie-O
>
> Real Programmers use COPY CON PROGRAM.EXE
>
>
>
>
>
>
Yes it’s irritating, and yes it’s annoying, and yes you would love to
throttle their lovely little necks, but it’s a fact of life. Like some users
can’t figure out that their pretty printing HTML looks like a steaming pile
of bovine scatology on my monitor, or some users haven’t figured out that no
one here cares that their company is not responsible if the question asked
might not fix the problem the questioner was asking because the company with
the disclaimer has a bug that they are disclaiming and the question is being
asked to figure out how to fix the problem the disclaiming company is
disclaiming.
It’s fact of life on the internet. Live with it.
–
Gary G. Little
Seagate Technologies, LLC
xxxxx@seagate.com
“Anthony” wrote in message news:xxxxx@ntdev…
>
> Hello stevie-o,
>
> I receive this kind of letters too. I do not know what is up either?
>
> Anthony
>
>
>
> “Stevie-O” ??? news:xxxxx@ntdev…
> >
> > I swear, if one more person sends me a freaking ‘i am out of the office’
> reply
> > in response to a MAILING LIST MESSAGE, I’m going to track down their IP
> and run
> > the recent DCOM exploit on them…
> >
> > WTF makes people think they should respond to a mailing list like that?
> >
> > Furthermore, when I sent this message the FIRST time, it was rejected
> because it
> > contained the string ‘out-of-the-office’ in the subject.
> >
> >
> > On second thought, I now know when these people are out of their
offices,
> > perhaps I should break into their buildings and steal all their stuff
> >
> > –
> > - Stevie-O
> >
> > Real Programmers use COPY CON PROGRAM.EXE
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
Gary G. Little wrote:
Yes it’s irritating, and yes it’s annoying, and yes you would love to
throttle their lovely little necks, but it’s a fact of life. Like some users
can’t figure out that their pretty printing HTML looks like a steaming pile
of bovine scatology on my monitor, or some users haven’t figured out that no
one here cares that their company is not responsible if the question asked
might not fix the problem the questioner was asking because the company with
the disclaimer has a bug that they are disclaiming and the question is being
asked to figure out how to fix the problem the disclaiming company is
disclaiming.
It’s fact of life on the internet. Live with it.
You know, you should write columns or something. The world could use more of
your wit and wisdom.
Seriously, I’ve had a lot of fun reading this list in the last couple of
days. Thanks guys!
Burk.
Burkhard Daniel * xxxxx@mtronix.de * www.mtronix.de
mtronix Precision Measuring Instruments