I never use OoO messages. (OoO=Out of Office, for those who are coming in late or who havent been paying attention).
I was contracting at a consumer organisation a few years ago, and our network was brought down by the damn things....
It was a long weekend - Monday was a national holiday. One of our customer service people sent a message late on a Friday afternoon to a customer, then set her OoO message and headed off out the door with everyone else, locking shoulders as they all tried to leave the building together. However what she didnt know was that the customer had also done the same thing.
The customer's email account received the email, and sent back a OoO message. Which was received by us and our customer service person's account sent back a OoO message ... which was received by the customer;s email account which sent back a OoO message .. which was recei... well you get the idea. It went on round the clock for 3 full days as we all relaxed with our families.
By Tuesday morning, there was a bazillion and a half messages in our mailbox. Our corporation's mail server was totally jammed packed with these OoO messages, and so was the customers. Not only that, there were so many of these messages backed up further up the line they kept coming in. Every time we cleared the mailbox, it filled up again. It took the best part of a morning to get rid of them all and start receiving the normal traffic again. The problem was the same over at the customer's network too. They took most of the day to clear theirs because they had two of these incidents making their life interesting.
Happily this wasn't my problem to solve, I was able to sit next to the network guy and chuckle to myself as I learned new words and expressions to add to my vocabulary. He had been in the navy in an earlier career and so he had a good stock of sayings that worked well in this situation.
I never use OoO messages.
Cheers
Mike Kear
Windsor, NSW, Australia
Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer
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Mike Kear
Windsor, NSW, Australia
Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer
AFP Webworks
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ColdFusion, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET hosting from AUD$15/month
On 11/15/05, Gary Menzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
----------------------------------------------------------You still have my vote, Ray.Gary
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