Re: Fw: Out of Office AutoReply: -- MIDRANGE-L

It's not the software, most of the email software I have ever used gives you 
the option to only send the reply only if a certain condition exists.  
It is the user that doesn't take to time to set it up properly. 

For example when I am going to be gone I set up a rule that says:  IF FROM 
contains "@good-sam.com" then send the auto reply.
Because there is no reason anyone outside the compay should know I am gone.  

Chris Beck 


>>> klemscot@klements.com 07/06/01 03:40PM >>>

Wow... that's pretty much EXACTLY how I feel about these messages...
I couldn't have said it better myself! :)


On Fri, 6 Jul 2001 MacWheel99@aol.com wrote:

> > I get regularly the following type of "out of office..."
> >  most of the time I couldn't care less, but what is
> >  this and why do we get them?
> 
> This is an example of a brain dead company buying brain dead software.
> There is an awful lot of this going around.
> 
> The theory is nice, that there is no such thing as mailing lists & news 
> groups & newsletters, the only thing that e-mail is used for is from one 
> person to another person & the software is setup using that theory, which as 
> we all know is a seriously flawed theory.
> 
> If the theory was valid, that the only e-mail we get is from other people 
> associated with our business, then it is important to tell them that we out 
> of office & that if you need immediate personnel dealing with your business 
> contact here is who to contact instead, so the software is setup with the 
> assumption that that is the only kind of e-mail you getting.
> 
> Thus ever person who posts anything to MIDRANGE_L or any other lists that 
> have these people on them, will get one of these things, or in some cases, 
> when I make a post to BPCS_L or E-COMMERCE or E-SECURITY or whatever list, I 
> get half a dozen of these things, from diifferent participants on the list 
> who have setup their software to auto reply to the original poster.
> 
> For a long time I railed against this - we need better software.
> Then I read a review of this software in major PC magazines.
> Apparently the software does recognize mailing lists & news groups & 
> e-newsletters & etc, & has filters so you not telling spammers this 
> information about you being a good e-mail address for more spam, which I am 
> sure would give these people heart attacks if they realized they were doing 
> that.
> The problem is the competence of the people who install the software.
> 
> So when you get one of these things, the hidden message is
> WE ARE AN INCOMPETENT COMPANY in computer terms - you better not do business 
> with us because we don't know what we are doing.
> 
> There is probably a market here for some consultant to let them know how they 
> are advertising this e-foot-in-mouth, and we consultant can fix this for you.
> 
> MacWheel99@aol.com (Alister Wm Macintyre) (Al Mac)
> 

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