Quoth Philip Hazel on Fri, Jul 14, 2000:
> It's machine-like because it is sent by a machine! Personally, I hate
> programs that try to be anthropomorphic and chatty, but I guess that's
> because I'm English and not American.
Hi, I'm Eddie the computer. We'll soon have bounce messages with
an application/paperclip MIME type attachment.
ISTR someone saying that when they installed qmail (which has the
chatty message), there was suddenly a major increase in the
number of replies to MAILER-DAEMON.
Vadik.
--
If there was anything that depressed him more than his own
cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as
real life.
-- Terry Pratchett, "Guards! Guards!"
