The Best E-mail Auto-response Ever

I’m hanging out with lots of great writers and editors right now at the North American Travel Journalists conference. One of the attendees with the best sense of humor is Spud Hilton, who runs the travel section of the San Francisco Chronicle .

Here’s the auto-response if you dare to send him an e-mail with the stupid non-term known as “staycation”:

This e-mail alert is to let you know that all messages to Chronicle Travel and Travel Editor Spud Hilton that contain the word “staycation” are automatically deleted by the e-mail server.

Please eliminate this word from all future mailings, in part because it was a non-existant trend, and because the idea — not going somewhere and calling it travel — is just stupid.

Thank you,
Chronicle Travel

Here’s what else pisses him off: the photography rights policy of supposed free art gathering Burning Man.