[TriLUG] Out Of Office messages

[Greg Brown]

I've been contacting the backups mentioned in the OOO messages to tell 
them that So-and-So hired me and I'll be starting work the next day.  
Nobody has fallen for that yet...  but after two plus months of 
unemployment I'll try just about anything!

Greg

On Friday, Jul 30, 2004, at 16:34 US/Eastern, Aaron S. Joyner wrote:

> Okay, we've had a rash of recent "Out Of Office" auto-responder 
> messages - 3 in 2 days.  Just as a friendly reminder, if you subscribe 
> to the list, and you're thinking of going out of town... *DON'T*!
>
> Or at least, if you go out of town, and would dare think of being 
> _away_from_email_ *gasp* -- either:
> 1) temporarily suspend your messages to the list, which you can easily 
> and conveniently do through the Mailman web interface located here: 
> http://www.trilug.org/mailman/options/trilug
> 2) Configure your autoresponding procmail recipe or .forward script 
> (or Outlook on Exchange, god forbid you) such that it won't 
> auto-respond to the list address.
>
> Because if you don't, the LART* will fly.
>
> --
> Aaron S. Joyner
>
> * LART - Luser Attitude Readjustment Tool. *1.* n. In the collective 
> mythos of scary devil monastery 
> <http://info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/s/scary_devil_monastery.html>, 
> this is an essential item in the toolkit of every BOFH 
> <http://info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/b/BOFH.html>. The LART classic 
> is a 2x4 or other large billet of wood usable as a club, to be applied 
> upside the head of spammers and other people who cause sysadmins more 
> grief than just naturally goes with the job. Perennial debates rage on 
> /alt.sysadmin.recovery/ over what constitutes the truly effective 
> LART; knobkerries, semiautomatic weapons, flamethrowers, and tactical 
> nukes all have their partisans. Compare clue-by-four 
> <http://info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/c/clue-by-four.html>. *2.* v. To 
> use a LART. Some would add "in malice", but some sysadmins do prefer 
> to gently lart their users as a first (and sometimes final) warning. 
> *3.* interj. Calling for one's LART, much as a surgeon might call 
> "Scalpel!". *4.* interj. [rare] Used in flame 
> <http://info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/f/flame.html>s as a rebuke. 
> "LART! LART! LART!"
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