Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:18:15 -0800
Reply-To: neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
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From: neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Wallaced?
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Ohhh.... THAT "Wallaced" --- ;^)
Yah I'm still new in Vanagon dat com time. Didn't know. Now it makes sense.
:)
Thanks for clearing that up!
Neil. (who sort-of has an office...... )
On Jan 28, 2008 4:44 PM, Richard Golen <rgolen@umassd.edu> wrote:
> The "wallaced" used on this list is not quite the same as "Tim
> Wallaced". A number of years ago (4 or 5?) one of our list members
> (named Wallace) went on vacation and had his email server send an "on
> vacation/out of office" message reply to his emails. Unfortunately,
> he forgot to put his vanagon list subscription on "hold", and for a
> week or more the traffic on this list effectively doubled...for every
> message sent to the list, all of us received a "on vacation/out of
> office" message from Mr. Wallace. Since that time, anytime the list
> receives one of those "on vacation" or "out of office" messages we
> refer to this situation as "being Wallaced".
>
>
> Ric
>
>
>
>
> At 07:30 PM 1/28/2008, neil N wrote:
> >Ok, so I had to know what it meant. I googled "wallaced"
> >
> >http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Tim+Wallaced
> >
> >Isn't that term, when used in reference to receiving an out of office
> >auto reply, a little drastic?
> >
> >--- ;^)
> >
> >Or am I misunderstanding all this? --- :^)
> >
> >Neil.
> >
> >--
> >Neil Nicholson. 1981 Air Cooled Westfalia - "Jaco"
> >http://web.mac.com/tubaneil
> >
> >Engine swap beginings: http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/
> >
> >
> >
> >On Jan 28, 2008 3:56 PM, Jim Akiba <syncrolist@bostig.com> wrote:
> > > I got that too.. so he gets one of these:
> > >
> > > http://www.bostig.com/files/jwmerit/john_wallace.jpg
> > >
> > > ha
> > >
> > >
> > > Jim Akiba
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 1/28/08, Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > I just got Wallaced by his auto-responder robot, too!
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
> > > > 71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
> > > > 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
> > > > 74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
> > > > KG6RCR
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On 1/28/2008 9:33 AM Pensioner wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Steve Laurenzano [stevelaurenzano@krain.com]
> > > >
> > >
>
>
--
Neil Nicholson. 1981 Air Cooled Westfalia - "Jaco"
http://web.mac.com/tubaneil
Engine swap beginings: http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/
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