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| Subject: | RE: GISList: All these annoying "Out of office" messages |
| Date: |
11/21/2001 09:09:46 AM |
| From: |
Anthony Quartararo |
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This is not the first time this issue has come up. Just like I have been
bonked for sending the list "read receipts" from time to time, I am sure
people forget, and likely don't even realize they have the "out of office"
reply function activated.
But, for those of you running Outlook/Outlook Express, you can choose not to
activate this function when you step out of the office, either for an hour
or a month or whatever. Personally I can't really understand why someone
would use it in the first place, because if someone does not respond with a
reasonable amount of time to an email I send, I presume they are "out of the
office" and will get back to me, if at all, when time permits. Furthermore,
if you insist on using this infamous "out of office" reply, with a little
non-programming effort, you can create a "rule" in Outlook/OE that does NOT
send an "out of office" reply to this list or any other. For those of you
using something else, I am sure there is a similar "disable" function too.
Use it. please.
If "you" can figure out the algorithms for various geographic datums and
projections, acre-feet of annual runoff in some Himalayan watershed or why
Kmart chose "your" neighborhood to open the newest SuperKmart, surely the
users of this list can determine how NOT to send "out of office" replies
without going to the extent of having to "unsubscribe" every time you leave
the office.
Anthony
-----Original Message-----
From: Glenn Letham [mailto:editor@geocomm.com\
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 9:32 AM
To: GISlist
Subject: Re: GISList: All these annoying "Out of office" messages
Exactly...
People, when you go away for holidays, please consider unsubbing then
getting back on the list when you return.
Your mail server will love you for it and it will make life easier when you
return as well!
What Bill is refering to are those really bothersome messages that tell us
that you are out of the office (and really... who actually gives a ^#$%*).
When I or anyone else sends a message to the GISList, your auto reply sends
a message back to the poster telling them you are a way. Now if 75 people
have done this you can see how annoying this can be.
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cheers
Happy Thanksgiving
Glenn
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Thoen" <bthoen@gisnet.com>
To: "GISlist" <gislist@geocomm.com>
Cc: "Glenn Letham" <editor@spatialnews.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 7:22 PM
Subject: GISList: All these annoying "Out of office" messages
> When people go out of town for vacation, is there any good reason
> to bounce Out-of-office autoreplies to everyone who posts to a
> mailing list? It's EXTREMELY annoying to post a message here and
> then get hammered with these stupid things sent by ignoratti off
> somewhere enjoying themselves. It really does make me think twice
> whether its worth the aggravation to post responses to legitimate
> messages here knowing that I'm going to have to pick these
> irritating bits out of my mailbox.
>
> Please folks, just unsubscribe for the time you're away, so the
> rest of us who are still "In-the-office" won't constantly be
> reminded that you're in the Caribbean sipping umbrella drinks
> while we are not.
>
> Or am I asking too much for you to curb your software?
>
> - Bill Thoen
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>
> To unsubscribe, write to gislist-unsubscribe@geocomm.com
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