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Re: excessive automation

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com)
Fri Jan 15 13:54:35 2010

Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:52:30 +0000
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
To: William Hamilton <bill@edisys.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <4B509F82.7040205@edisys.co.uk>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 05:01:54PM +0000, William Hamilton wrote:
> 
> I agree it's perhaps not clear how to get hold of a human, but you can't 
> really argue that it's not clear how to progress the issue in general as 
> the message quite clearly tells you to respond if you wish for it to be 
> re-opened.

	and to the creative mind, a wide range of responses opens for
	consideration.

> I can't accept that the instructions that the bot provided were unclear, 
> but can organisations in general (again, not SORBS-specific) do better 
> when dealing with their "customers"?

	like the autobot on Magrathea?
> 
> Absolutely.
> 
> B
> 


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