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One good deed leads to a storm in an Exchange Server

GlenP Silver badge

In the early days, just about at the time Exchange was first being launched (and allegedly there were only a handful of people in the UK who knew how to configure it) we'd moved from having modems on individual PCs to an ISDN based proprietary box which one day suffered a similar snow storm. Tracking tools were limited but by a process of elimination I tracked it down to the engineering manager. He'd sent a perfectly valid email to a supplier rep which elicited an out of office message that required a read receipt!

As mentioned in the article things weren't sophisticated back then so the read receipt prompted another out of office message which also requested a read receipt...

I suspect the rep at the other end got a dressing down over it from his employer but it took a while to manage to break the chain at our end.

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