Thanks, tsuwm - hilarious, and so dreadfully plausible – like a monstrous cross between Franz Kafka and Monty Python!
Here’s another real-life tale of terrible reiteration, thanks to Jon at silicon.com:
And now for another of our reader's digital blunders… A Mr Smith (actually his real name) told us: "We had a colleague who liked to use the 'I'm out of the office' auto-reply feature on email. Unfortunately, just before he went on holiday, he tried to send a fax out, through a networked fax system, but mis-addressed it. The fax system replied to tell him this about 10 minutes later (after he'd gone on holiday). His email account then replied to the fax system that he was on holiday. The fax system kindly replied that the new email didn't have a valid fax number on. And after several thousand arguments, a few hours later the company’s whole computer system ran out of disk space."
You can read more of these at http://www.silicon.com/goto-Digital-round
