Wow.
What I meant by that was that an Auto reply is that it takes the company as much effort to reply to you after it has been set up, than if they didn't respond at all.
It may give you that warm fuzzy feeling that you need to stroke your ego, as you tell yourself "Yes, they have acknowledged my godliness."
End of the day, the email still goes to the same place and may or may not get read even at all.
What a
tool. I started off by offering a bit of advice to new time guys in here in what may or may not help them get noticed and eventually hired into the start of their career, and you go off on some high horse holier than thou crusade.