And I drily note that many of them seem to be nominally organic computing units that have fallen slave to their minds' failure to adapt and to failed habits. {^_-} Joanne ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scot L. Harris" <webid@xxxxxxxxxx> > On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 06:59, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Duncan Lithgow wrote: ... > > and continuing along this line, "your posting has been rejected by the > > red hat mail system because it: > > > > 1) has a blank subject > > 2) has a meaningless subject "HELP!!!" (that sort of thing) > > 3) etc, etc, etc. > > > > i can't imagine this would be all that difficult. is there any reason > > this can't be done? > > > > rday > > > > "this is the red hat mailing list auto-responder. our filtering > > software has detected that you have responded by top posting rather > > than bottom posting. your post has been rejected and, in addition, > > guido and lorenzo will be by to see you later today to slap some sense > > into you. have a nice day." > > Actually there seem to be any number of "auto-responders" when such > messages are sent out. :) > > > -- > Scot L. Harris > webid@xxxxxxxxxx