Let me share with the list what I did a number of years ago in direct relationship to the subject above and trying to be a smarta*s. Please don't laugh at me too hard, but you can log this as Friday Humor is you like. As I stated, it was many years ago, and people were still trying to unsubscribe via the list. I got sick and tired of people not reading the bottom of the email, and sending garbage to the list, so I set up a rule in Outlook that would send an auto response to the individual, and would delete the email. All worked well for many months, and I was quite proud of myself. One day, I had decided to burn a vacation day and just fiddle around the house. It was an early spring day, so I did my thing outside the house, thinking everything was right in the world. Unbeknown to me, there was an individual that was going to destroy that by sending an UNSUBSCRIBE message, then turn on his out of office rule on. The email came in to the list, with the subject line, UNSUBSCRIBE. The email made to my machine, quietly using its rules to sort through my email when this email came in. My rule caught the offender and replied, telling the owner of the email how to properly leave the list. Well, he had his out of office set, as he must have found the outdoors as appealing as I did. His reply came back to me, telling me that he was out of office for the rest of the day. Getting a response like that was fine, my rules were ready, but the problem was, his out of office reply kept the UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line. My rules didn't like the reply and did it's thing. The email bounced back to this individuals inbox and his out of office reply responded yet again. I hope you all see where this is going. I forgot to mention that this individual worked at a military installation that few have heard of. Well, after about ten minutes and 6,000 emails later, a big dog at this installation called here. After a bit was passed to an individual in our security department. The person in the security department knew me, so called right away. The conversation went something like this: "Hello?" "Darrell, do you know so and so from blah blah?" "Nope, never heard of him." "Well, can you explain why you just emailed him 6,000 times in less than 10 minutes, taking down a government's exchange server that we are not supposed to know about?" "Uh, maybe my auto rules caught something, and they have something similar on their end. I'm not in, so I know it wasn't me personally that emailed this guy." "Well, we are at a loss to do, we need to stop the looping. The government isn't too happy." "Unplug my network connection." "Ok, bye." He went to my computer and yanked the power cord out of the wall. We talked later and had a good laugh about it. I made cracks about black choppers hovering in my backyard.
Darrell Reading Systems Engineer Phone 479.204.5739 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. 805 Moberly Lane, MS-0560-68 Bentonville, AR 72716 Save Money. Live Better ________________________________ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Susan Palmer Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 11:23 To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: UNSUBSCRIBE ** lol ... sometimes I cannot skip a chance for a smarta*s response On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Sanford, Claire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ** Susan like Pat Zandi can never leave us!!! ________________________________ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Howard Richter Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 7:52 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: UNSUBSCRIBE ** Susan, I thought you were going to get off the list and my world was ending.. hbr On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 6:37 PM, Susan Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ** Read the bottom of the email On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Benitz, Tony : CO IR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How do I get off the list. I am not doing Remedy any longer and the there is a lot of action on this list. Thanks.. Tony Benitz ________________________________ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) on behalf of Thomas Bean Sent: Thu 3/6/2008 12:07 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Pattern of $MENU$ ** Andy, What search qualification do you have defined in the menu attached to the character field? --Thomas ----- Original Message ----- From: Mayfield, Andy L. <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: gmane.comp.crm.arsystem.general To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 1:58 PM Subject: Re: Pattern of $MENU$ ** I am confused now. I am using the same setup on other fields with no problem, but for some reason on this form it doesn't want to work. Andy L. Mayfield Sr. System Operation Specialist Alabama Power Company Office: 205-226-1805 Cell: 205-288-9140 SoLinc: 10*19140 ________________________________ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thomas Bean Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 1:15 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Pattern of $MENU$ $MENU$ patterns below version will work in earlier versions of ARS, but not if the search qualification defined in the search menu contains a dynamic field reference. e.g.: 'Equipment Category' = $536870913$ There was a workaround for this, however (see attached). This workaround should still be valid on later versions of ARS. However, it would be MUCH simpler to follow Joe's suggestion, and change the display type to 'Drop-Down List' in the display properties of the character field to which the search menu is attached (unless for some reason you don't want the character field to look like a selection field). HTH, --Thomas ----- Original Message ----- From: Joe D'Souza <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: gmane.comp.crm.arsystem.general To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 9:17 PM Subject: Re: Pattern of $MENU$ ** Andy, If you hare having the field patterned using $MENU$, why do you type into it or let your users type into it? Can't you just have the character field displayed as a drop-list and have the users forced to use the menus? That's an available feature in ARS version 6.3 upwards.. That would be clean and you would get what you want to do... If you are below version 6, and somewhere close to version 4.5, there used to be a bug with the $MENU$ patterning.. Even valid values would be rejected. The only fix on that version was to upgrade it. I do not recall a patch that fixed it except the next upgrade.. 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