I have had a habit to unsubscribe for my holiday just for that reason. Not much trouble, one email to do it and another to when coming back.
Ari > -----Original Message----- > From: ext Gregg Kervill [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 12:28 AM > To: 'EMC-pstc (E-mail)' > Subject: RE: Do you realise how annoying it is? > > > > Could this be why so many senior manager subscribe? > Gregg > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Hudson, Alan > Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 8:41 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 > 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
