[TowerTalk] ?????

[Roger (K8RI) on TT]

On 6/21/2014 10:13 PM, Kevin Kidd wrote:
> Yea, that is what is happening. Seconds after my last post I received an
> undecipherable reply DIRECTLY from zhangliu.

They are not at all uncommon. Nearly every list I'm on receives a few, 
although it's much better now days.  People (including hams) would put 
up the "out of office" note without thinking about reflectors separately 
from business mail.  As was mentioned, it got to be a real PITA on some 
groups.

I didn't realize any one person had been given credit as it's so widely 
use by people not thinking.<:-))
I never heard about it and IT was my profession until I retired in 97.

73

Roger (K8RI)


>
> Later,
>
> Kevin C. Kidd, CSRE/AMD
> AM Ground Systems Company  -  WD4RAT
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>
> On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 9:06 PM, Kevin Kidd <
> kkbroadcastengineering at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On the CrTech Broadcast List it is lovingly called Faron's Oscillator.
>> Many years ago, Faron set his vacation reminder to reply to all received
>> emails and when the list repeats started coming in you can imagine what
>> happened.  I don't recall Faron's last name and he isn't active on the
>> CrTech list but his name lives on in legend.
>>
>> On a list where there was normally 30 or 40 posts per day, with Faron's
>> Oscillator running there were thousands of posts when a post hit his InBox
>> and was automatically replied to and then the automatic reply was reflected
>> and then replied to and ....
>>
>> Modern reflector software generally filters this kind of thing but it came
>> about from early classic fails.
>>
>> Later,
>>
>>
>>
>> Kevin C. Kidd, CSRE/AMD
>> AM Ground Systems Company  -  WD4RAT
>> kkidd at kkbc.com  --  866-22-RADIO -- 866-227-2346
>> www.amgroundsystems.com
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 5:21 PM, Bill Aycock <billaycock at mediacombb.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> It could be worse-- On another list, someone set "Return receipt
>>> requested" on his "Vacation Post". Imagine what HIS mailbox was like when
>>> he returned!
>>> Bill--W4BSG
>>>
>>> -----Original Message----- From: David Robbins
>>> Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2014 5:05 PM
>>> To: reflector -tower ; K7LXC at aol.com
>>> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] ?????
>>>
>>> Someone translated it earlier, sounds like an out-of-office auto reply.
>>>   My
>>> suggestion would be to switch him to digest mode and send him an email
>>> telling him why so when he gets home he knows not to do that again.
>>>
>>> David Robbins K1TTT
>>> e-mail: mailto:k1ttt at arrl.net
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>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of
>>> Edward via TowerTalk
>>> Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2014 21:27
>>> To: K7LXC at aol.com
>>> Cc: towertalk at contesting.com; glhuber at msn.com
>>> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] ?????
>>>
>>> Translation would be nice.  Then we would know for sure.
>>>
>>> On Jun 21, 2014, at 13:20, K7LXC--- via TowerTalk <
>>> towertalk at contesting.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>   is zhangliu529 at sina.com a legit member of Tower Talk? If  not how
>>>>> about
>>>>>
>>>> blocking them?
>>>>
>>>>     This email address is a legitimate subscriber to  TT, as opposed to
>>>> spammers that spoof member email addresses. Other than the  recent
>>>> post that was just ??????????, what other transgressions has this
>>>> member  committed? I don't recall anything else and I do read EVERY post.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Steve     K7LXC
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