Re: "IDEAL" client program

From: Daniel de Rauglaudre (daniel.de_rauglaudre@inria.fr)
Date: Sat Dec 18 1999 - 15:44:28 MET


> Now it would be nice to get an acknowledgement to the e-mail instead of
> having to look up your stats to verify that your effort was credited.
> This could be done with a daemon.

Automatic Email replies are dangerous.

Some people use auto-reply when they are in vacation. Imagine Mr Smith
using this system:

Mr Smith's machine computes a point when Mr Smith is on vacation. Mr
Smith's machine sends a point to ecdl2k-108@cristal.inria.fr. Our
supposed automatic replier answers Mr Smith that it received his
point. Mr Smith's replier tells by Email to ecdl2k-108@cristal.inria.fr
that Mr Smith is on vacacation, which replies by Email to Mr Smith's
replier that it received his points, which replies by Email to
ecdl2k-108@cristal.inria.fr, which replies which replies which replies...
do I have to continue?

-- 
Daniel de RAUGLAUDRE
daniel.de_rauglaudre@inria.fr
http://cristal.inria.fr/~ddr/



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