[NTLK] USB to serial

[Dennis B. Swaney]

On 08/12/10 03:05PST, Lord Groundhog wrote:
> ~~~ On 2010/12/08 03:07, Dennis B. Swaney at romad at aol.com wrote ~~~
>
>>>> This reads like a sneaky bit of spam, doesn't it?
>>>>
>>
>> It's not. It is an app available for Android and Blackberry phones that
>> read email and text messages out loud for handsfree driving. Looks like
>> it has an auto-reply feature also.
>>
>
> Thanks for the clarification, Dennis.  I guess this is where I say "Oops!"
>
> All too often, "auto-reply feature" = auto-spam feature.  There are still
> people out there whose "vacation reply feature" send out "Joe Blogs is on
> holiday until too long from now.  Your e-mail will receive his attention as
> soon as he returns" *every* time the lists they belong to send out anything,
> because they didn't set it to auto-reply only once.  On a busy list that
> gets crazy, quickly.  But at least those replies are about the person, and
> don't usually send out software ads.
>
> This thing looked like someone's e-mail service had been hijacked.  My
> mistake, eh?
>

I understand where you're coming from. What it looks like to me is when 
the app reads the message, it generates an auto-reply email that 
includes the ad at the bottom. Then the sender's device adds the sig 
line and sends out the message, I wonder if it does the same for Text 
messages and what one would look like, though.

As for 1-time auto-replies, I wasn't aware that was possible. Then 
again, I don't use auto-reply (I can't even find an option on 
Thuderbird), so it isn't surprising.

-- 
Sincerely,
Dennis B. Swaney

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