Chris Candreva wrote: > 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. > > 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.
Agreed. It would be nice if there was an OOO SMTP extension, though. Then the necessary notification could be picked up by the sending server, which presumably knows more about who should receive the notification than does the receiving server. -- Matthew.van.Eerde (at) hbinc.com 805.964.4554 x902 Hispanic Business Inc./HireDiversity.com Software Engineer _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
