Hilary Mason: How to Replace Yourself with a Very Small Shell Script

Re:Hilary Mason: How to Replace Yourself with a Very Small S... by mberning on Tuesday May 25, 2010 @11:01PM (#1379387)

This might be cool if you are a quasi web-celebrity, but in a business setting it would be downright dangerous. I can't imagine how terrible I would feel if something completely fell through the cracks OR did not receive an adequate response from me. I also can't imagine auto-nagging my boss about ANYTHING.

I guess the biggest problem I would have using this at work is that it is fundamentally based on the idea that people are contacting me about stupid stuff (generally not true) and that I'm way too busy/important to respond directly to somebody (also generally not true).

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Re:Hilary Mason: How to Replace Yourself with a Very Small S... by hmason on Tuesday May 25, 2010 @11:03PM (#1379393)

I put all of the auto-generated e-mails in my drafts folder, so I can edit, modify, or delete before I send on a case by case basis.

There's also a whitelist.

I'll release the code as soon as I disentangle my personal data from it. Patches welcome. :-)

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Re:Hilary Mason: How to Replace Yourself with a Very Small S... by duck on Tuesday May 25, 2010 @11:29PM (#1379430)

I put all of the auto-generated e-mails in my drafts folder, so I can edit, modify, or delete before I send on a case by case basis.

That is a great way to actually use the drafts folder, looking forward to the code so I can put that to use.

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Re:Hilary Mason: How to Replace Yourself with a Very Small S... by mberning on Tuesday May 25, 2010 @11:17PM (#1379413)

That's cool. I got the impression that it was communicating with people on the fly with little/no oversight.

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Re:Hilary Mason: How to Replace Yourself with a Very Small S... by hmason on Wednesday May 26, 2010 @12:00AM (#1379467)

Initially it did, but that went wrong a few too many times. :-)

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Re:Hilary Mason: How to Replace Yourself with a Very Small S... by igravious on Wednesday May 26, 2010 @07:34AM (#1380038)

Your way is much simpler. I was building an AI to handle all my emails but it turned out to be a lot harder than I had originally envisioned.

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Re:Hilary Mason: How to Replace Yourself with a Very Small S... by hmason on Wednesday May 26, 2010 @08:32AM (#1380111)

Thanks!

I'm trying to use the model of the unix command line -- each script is useful and simple on its own, but in combination they become incredibly powerful.

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