Alan, I'm afraid you are tilting at windmills. Many (most?) of us participate in this forum from work and alternate e-mail addresses aren't practical. Secondly, we turn on the out of office agents for business reasons and can't filter whether they are sent based on the sender of the message (although that would be a good feature - Microsoft, are you listening?). I can think of at least two good reasons to have the filter. One is to eliminate the annoying OOP messages on this and other groups and the second would be to (and this would be a bit more challenging) prevent automatic replies to spammers when you're out, verifying to them that your e-mail address is valid.
Ghery S. Pettit Intel Corporation From: Hudson, Alan [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 6:41 AM To: EMC-pstc (E-mail) Subject: Do you realise how annoying it is? <Rant on> I know it's been mentioned before, but I'm having a bad day so I'll mention it again. You do someone the courtesy of replying to their enquiry in this useful group, or you post a query, and what do you get? Umpteen (16 in the last 3 hours) "I'm out of the office" messages from people you didn't know existed, never mind wanted to know if they were in or out. Would the people that have "Out of the Office" autoreplies set please do one of the following: (a) Turn Autoreply off! (I've never seen a need for it myself, and what did they do before they had it?) (b) If you can't/won't turn it off then unsubscribe from the EMC-PSTC list and re-subscribe using another email address with an emailer which doesn't have Autoreply turned on (let's face it, there are hundreds, if not thousands, of free email addresses available). A small effort on one person's part to setup another address (or to turn off Autoreply) would save hundreds (thousands?) of subscribers having to make the effort to eliminate/filter unwanted "Out of office" messages. ...or we could be very nasty and make a list of all subscribers who have Autoreply set, and route spam to them for a change (because that's what it is - unwanted junk mail) - when they're back in the office of course. <Rant off> Oh God! It's just occurred to me - if I send this I'm going to get another load of "Out of Office" messages! ...but at least it's not July 4th (think of the pointless OOF replies clogging the internet then!), and it's a Monday after all. :-) Oh God (again)! It's just occurred to me - the OOF people won't be reading this message. <Sob> :-( Alan ******************************************************************** This email and any attachments are confidential to the intended recipient and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient please delete it from your system and notify the sender. You should not copy it or use it for any purpose nor disclose or distribute its contents to any other person. ******************************************************************** This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: [email protected] with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Ron Pickard: [email protected] Dave Heald: [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected] Jim Bacher: [email protected] Archive is being moved, we will announce when it is back on-line. All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: [email protected] with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Ron Pickard: [email protected] Dave Heald: [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected] Jim Bacher: [email protected] Archive is being moved, we will announce when it is back on-line. All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc
