I love this story! Thanks for sharing.
Andy Hickner, MSI
Librarian for the Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine
Seton Hall University | Interprofessional Health Sciences Campus
andrew.hickner_at_shu.edu | 1-973-542-6973
http://library.shu.edu/ihs
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From: Code for Libraries <CODE4LIB_at_LISTS.CLIR.ORG> On Behalf Of Allen Seelye
Sent: Monday, September 30, 2019 1:11 PM
To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Subject: [CODE4LIB] A bit of Monday morning, library tech amusement
Last Thursday, someone used our Library Document Station to send something to a generic email address at Wells Fargo. Wells Fargo has an auto-responder for that email address, and it sent a message back. I have an auto-responder set up for the email address that our LDS sends from, and it sent a response to their auto-responder, to which it... auto-responded. They have been having that conversation since Thursday afternoon, to the tune of 6168 messages sent back and forth.
I discovered this about 8:30 this morning, and as much as it pained me to intervene in this budding, auto-responder romance, I finally put a stop to it. Myself and a sysadmin at Wells Fargo had a pretty good chuckle over it.
Python is fun.
Allen Seelye
Assistant Network Administrator
Missoula Public Library
allens_at_missoula.lib.mt.us
406 541 8867
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