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An opportunity for the daring (like yours truly) to be wags,  the priggish to be patronise — [[Dear Sender]] — and for the anal to clog up the word's inboxes by mysteriously contriving an automatically generated out-of-office message that replicates itself like a fruit-fly and issues in triplicate however many emails you send to the same person.
An opportunity for the daring (like yours truly) to be wags,  the priggish to be patronise — [[Dear Sender]], [[please be advised]] and so on — and for the anal to clog up the word's inboxes by mysteriously contriving an automatically generated out-of-office message that replicates itself like a fruit-fly and issues in triplicate however many emails you send to the same person.


We suspect that those who generate multiple out-of-office messages are the same sort of folk who have never discovered their “[[sent items]]” folder, and hence cc themselves onto every [[email]] message they send, just so they don’t lose it.
We suspect that those who generate multiple out-of-office messages are the same sort of folk who have never discovered their “[[sent items]]” folder, and hence cc themselves onto every [[email]] message they send, just so they don’t lose it.