On my way out of the country this past month, I set-up an auto-responder to let people know that I would be replying to e-mails as best as possible. Later that day, I launched an edition of this newsletter to my 17,000 subscribers. Of course, some of those subscribers had also placed auto-responders on their accounts for a variety of reasons.
But then the auto-responders started automatically responding to the auto-responders. For more than an hour, I was inundated auto-responder messages responding to my auto-responder that was responding to their auto-responders. Eventually, all the systems timed out and there was peace once again in my world. And they call this progress?