• hperrin@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Fun fact: when you reply to a noreply email address, your email is rerouted to the No Reply Email Center (NREC) in New York, where it’s printed out and shredded to make confetti. Every year, Macy’s buys the vast majority of this confetti to use in their Thanksgiving parade. If everyone stopped doing that, they’d run out of confetti.

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    6 months ago

    True story: I responded (unpleasantly and verbosely) to one of those automated no-reply messages from Reddit, regarding a 3-day suspension for violating some rule (aka, pissing off a mod)… and I did get a reply. Account banned.

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    6 months ago

    I’m old enough to have experienced an Exchange server being brought to it’s knees due to two out of office replies fighting back and forth with each other.