Re: Vacation time

From	Ken Brody <kenbrody@spamcop.net>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	Re: Vacation time
Date	2016-07-29 12:36 -0400
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<nng0mt$cjo$2@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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On 7/29/2016 11:25 AM, James Kuyper wrote:
[...]
> In order to make this particular mistake, I had to ignore no less than
> five different pieces of evidence that I was not sending the message
> where I intended to:
> 1. "From:" was my personal e-mail account rather than my work account.
> 2. There was no "To:"
> 3. "CC:" was automatically filled in with my personal e-mail address
> 4. "Newsgroups:" was automatically filled in with "comp.lang.c"
> 5. The automatically filled-in signature required by my employer was
> missing.
>
> I was simply tired enough not to notice any of those except the last
> one, and I was too tired to realize what the last one meant. All the
> precautions in the world are useless, if you're too tired to remember to
> use them.

I'm sure we've all been there.  (I have four kids, but never had the 
"privilege" of having to deal with twins.)

But, if we can't make fun of such a mistake, then why bother with Usenet in 
the first place?  (And it was certainly a nice change of pace from the 
"please do my homework" posts.)

-- 
Kenneth Brody

Thread

Vacation time "James R. Kuyper" <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2016-07-27 21:39 -0400
  Re: Vacation time Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2016-07-27 20:31 -0600
    Re: Vacation time Real Troll <real.troll@trolls.com> - 2016-07-28 00:00 -0300
      Re: Vacation time Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2016-07-27 21:29 -0600
      Re: Vacation time Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> - 2016-07-28 01:58 -0500
        Re: Vacation time Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-07-28 08:01 +0100
          Re: Vacation time "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2016-07-28 16:19 -0500
            Re: Vacation time James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2016-07-28 21:23 -0400
              Re: Vacation time James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2016-07-29 11:25 -0400
                Re: Vacation time Ken Brody <kenbrody@spamcop.net> - 2016-07-29 12:36 -0400
                Re: Vacation time Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-07-29 09:55 -0700
    Re: Vacation time James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2016-07-27 23:51 -0400
      Re: Vacation time Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2016-07-28 00:51 -0700
      Re: Vacation time Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2016-07-28 08:38 -0600
        Re: Vacation time James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2016-07-28 14:41 -0400
          Re: Vacation time Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2016-07-28 15:33 -0600
            Re: Vacation time BruceS <bruces42@hotmail.com> - 2016-07-28 15:36 -0600
            Re: Vacation time Real Troll <real.troll@trolls.com> - 2016-07-28 17:38 -0400
              Re: Vacation time Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-07-28 15:09 -0700
              Re: Vacation time James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2016-07-28 21:41 -0400
            Re: Vacation time James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2016-07-28 21:32 -0400
            Re: Vacation time "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2016-07-28 23:51 -0500
              Re: Vacation time Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2016-07-29 08:32 -0600
          Re: Vacation time Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2016-07-28 21:06 -0400
            Re: Vacation time BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-07-29 10:41 +0100
  Re: Vacation time "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2016-07-27 22:00 -0500
  Re: Vacation time DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-07-28 15:38 -0400
  Re: Vacation time Ken Brody <kenbrody@spamcop.net> - 2016-07-28 15:56 -0400
  Re: Vacation time DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-07-28 18:28 -0400
    Re: Vacation time Real Troll <real.troll@trolls.com> - 2016-07-28 18:40 -0400
    Re: Vacation time Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-07-28 15:50 -0700
      Re: Vacation time DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-07-28 19:15 -0400
        Re: Vacation time Ken Brody <kenbrody@spamcop.net> - 2016-07-29 12:32 -0400
          Re: Vacation time Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2016-07-29 10:47 -0600
    Re: Vacation time James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2016-07-28 21:47 -0400
      Re: Vacation time DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-07-29 09:50 -0400

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