[SOC] It's true!

[Walter - K5EST]

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Great story..................keyboarding with a robot........how
future'istic!!!!!!

73....Walter - K5EST







On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Michael Coslo <mjc5 at psu.edu> wrote:
> For those who don't know me, I'm the Chairman of the Pennsylvania QSO
> Party.
>
> We have an electronic log submission process that whenever a person
> sends in a log via email, it automatically sends a copy of the log to
> me, the Vice chairman, and keeps a copy on the server. The Operator
> gets a email reply that says we got the log, and thanks him for
> operation in the party, yada, yada. If it's not a log, I don't see it.
> But it isn't a terribly complicated system. The email reply is
> triggered on the email, not the log.
>
> A couple years ago, an Op had sent his log to our email address just
> like he was supposed to.
>
> Right before declaring all logs received, I check the server just to
> make sure I have everything.
>
> I see several emails from this guy. Now that's odd.....
>
> I open the first - it's his submission. Standard autoreply.
>
> I open the second - he asked a question. Standard autoreply again.
>
> Third - he writes that we didn't answer his question. Yup, same
> autoreply.
>
> Now he's mad.
>
> Fourth through eighth, was an increasingly irritated batch of posts,
> ending up with lots of swearing, disparaging remarks about the QSO
> Party, and my intelligence, lineage and ancestors. All the time, the
> robot is thanking him kindly in reply.
>
> I quickly got hold of the fellow and explained what happened. After
> his embarrassment about getting into a fight with an email robot, we
> both had to agree that it was awfully funny.
>
> I modified the autoreply message to include that people should not do
> correspondence at that address.
>
> But this might be the most SOC thing I'd ever seen.
>
>
> -73 de Mike N3LI -
>
>
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