Messages from U.S. senators

[l.m.fosse at easteur-orient.uio.no]

>Luis Gonzalez-Reimann wrote:
>>Could someone explain why the Indology List is receiving messages from
>>U.S. senators?
>
>Here is my theory as to why the infamous and incorrigible senator, Jesse
>Helms and others, have sent mail to Indology:
>
>Since the subject line of the senatorial correspondence read "Re:!!!," and
>the ridiculous message from Hanuman7 at aol.com, with "good luck totems," also
>bore that subject line, the two are probably related.  In some mail
>programs, such as Eudora, you can forward mail by "redirecting" it as an
>alternative way of forwarding it.  ...

If this is the correct explanation, we now know that US senators answer
their email automatically be means of ready-made message. They obviously
don't even read what people write. What a relief to their secretaries!

Lars Martin Fosse



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