7/19/2006
U.S. Federal government hard at work
Lately, we’ve been getting several calls per day from 702-430-4444, some unlisted company in Las Vegas. Since I’m in California and they’re in Nevada, I figured this is an interstate issue and I should try the U.S. attorney general (in addition to the California and Nevada ones). I sent an email and here’s the response that I got back:
----- Forwarded Message ---- From: ASKDOJ <ASKDOJ {at} usdoj(.)gov> To: Marc AbramowitzSent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 11:46:50 AM Subject: Out of Office AutoReply: Annoying Telemarketers: 702-430-4444 I will be out of the office Friday 17.
Nice. They’ve got a single person handling their correspondence (a rather terse and uninformative person) and by the date, this message is at least 4 months old.
I guess everybody at the DOJ is busy working on defending illegal wire tapping or something.
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Come now you’re not being unreasonable. You can’t possibly expect the people at the DOJ to work 40 hours a week and actually remember to turn off their auto reply. Let alone have a technical savey person there to inform them of their PEBCAK’ness. I personally believe tax payer’s money is put to good use. I love sarcasm.
There’s actually a feature in M$ Outlook, that is kinda like a away message. Personally I think that this “feature” is really a pain in the ass. For example, if you send a message to your colleague at work it probably goes through the same mail-gateway. Now, when you’ve send the message, you decide to put your own “away message” on. And if your colleague has this feature on too, you can guess what it does
It causes way too much traffic on the mail-server.