How embarrassing
I hate it when people are away and set up an autoresponder that doesn’t understand mailing lists. It’s just so rude to have your moronic robot punctuating our conversation with “I’m sorry but I’m away right now somewhere staggeringly exotic having a far better time than you are” every time someone speaks.
So I was quite embarrassed to find this mailing list post:
(This is an automatically generated message) After five happy years I've left Tagish so I can spend more time programming. If you are trying to reach me on Tagish business please mail sarahc AT tagish DOT co DOT uk If you're actually trying to reach me please mail me at andy AT hexten DOT net If you have received this message without having emailed me that's probably because your address has been forged and used to spam me. Please don't be offended. This mail box gets around 2,500 spams a day and most of them are from forged addresses so you're not being picked on. -- Andy Armstrong, Hexten
Oops. I’m really sorry. My error was extra egregious because I obviously knew about backscatter; I knew that my autoresponder was going to end up spamming itself:
If you have received this message without having emailed me that’s
probably because your address has been forged and used to spam me.
To find out just how shitty autoresponders (including mine) are go here.