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[ot] What is it with this group and the Out of Office messages?

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From: Timothy J. Luoma
Date: Aug 20, 2002 9:19PM


Why is it that this list has a much higher percentage of people who have
ill-configured auto-responders that reply with their "Out of Office"?

This happens only rarely on any other list, but just about any time I
post to WebAIM, I get at least two of them from someone....

a) Your autoresponder should not respond to a mailing list ... or any
other "daemon" generated message (you'd hate it, and your administrator
would hate it even more, if your auto-responder and someone else's
auto-responder getting into a mail-loop war....Which brings me to my
second point...

b) Your autoresponder should not respond to the same address more than
once (especially on the same day)

TjL





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