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 
To: Marc Abramowitz 
Sent: 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.

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