[66097] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Out of office/vacation messages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Lockhart)
Thu Dec 25 15:47:17 2003
Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2003 20:46:32 +0000
From: Simon Lockhart <simon.lockhart@bbc.co.uk>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Mahogany-0.66.0-2045-20031225-153634.00@averillpark.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu Dec 25, 2003 at 03:36:34PM -0500, Richard Welty wrote:
> nanog has a clear Precedence: bulk line in the header which is
> the defacto standard for handling this, so that can't be it.
>
> i think it's basically clueless IT staffs trying to reinvent a wheel
> that's been invented, usually badly, billions and billions of times
> over the past 30 or so years.
I don't think it's even that clever - I think it's just Out of Office
assistant in Exchange / Outlook, which replies blindly to every email it sees,
whether it's directly addressed to the recipient or not, whether it has
Precedence: set or not...
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