On Wed, 17 May 2006, Daniel T. Staal wrote: > These days, being out of the office, or town, or country, is no reason for > you to not be able to get your email, if you felt you needed to. So, the > only reason you aren't responding is that you don't want to.
I would say the problem is people expecting e-mail to be treating like a voice conversation with an immediate response. If you call the office and get a human, they can tell you Joe is on vacation, someone else can help you. When people got voice mail boxes, they would put those messages there. E-mail supplimented the phone, and that same feature was expected. The fact that Microsoft implemented auto-responders completely broken and has never fixed it doesn't stop /usr/bin/vacation from being very usefull. -Chris ========================================================== Chris Candreva -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- (914) 967-7816 WestNet Internet Services of Westchester http://www.westnet.com/ _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
