> 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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