I removed my subscription to the Patch Management list for exactly that reason. It was truly unbearable. When you lose count of the OOO's upward of 175 there is just really no excuse for it. TVK
From: James Rankin [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 3:27 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Can someone remove me from this list? If you've ever sent an email to the Patch Management mailing list, you'll never complain about the OOO responses from the Exchange or SysAdmin lists again. 2009/3/6 Sherry Abercrombie <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> They've tried to get Lyris to do that, after another one of these excruciatingly long discussions bashing it for OOO's, and it didn't work out very well. Leave well enough alone. On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 7:35 PM, Jason Tierney <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: That's just it. It's not just convenience. It's a flaw in some piece of software - and I'll blame Exchange. When I had my 2003 server, I had this great regedit that stopped the OOF's. Now on 2007, I have nothing but 5 year old problems. How about this. Can Lyris be configured to drop any messages that contain Out of Office? Perhaps Exchange can be updated to include an option to send OOF's only to people in my Contacts folder? Either way, I'm an OOFer and don't plan on stopping. There are way to many private and confidential things in my mailbox to just delegate access to an underling (no one else can do it). I also have too many customers that may want to contact me directly that need to know an alternate contact to send out a blast email to my entire list every time I call in sick. So please, let's agree to disagree and move on. Jason Tierney, MCITP:EA Vice President, Consulting Services Corporate Network Services "Count on Us" 20010 Fisher Ave, Suite E Poolesville, MD 20837 direct: 240-425-4441 | main: 301.948.8077 | fax: 301.349.2518 http://www.cornetser.com Best Place to Work, Alliance for Workplace Excellence - 2006, 2007, 2008 ...ask me how to better manage your IT costs with PROSuite ________________________________________ From: Ben Scott [[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 5:49 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Can someone remove me from this list? On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 2:43 PM, John Hornbuckle <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > You don't like getting OOFs from mailing lists. I don't either. But based on > the > number that we get, it appears that quite a few list members do things > the way I do. People are murdered ever day; that doesn't mean it's right. (For those bad at logic: I'm not equating sending OOFs to a list with murder. I'm demonstrating the fallacy of "the frequent occurrence of something means it is okay to do it".) > Does that make it right? It's neither right nor wrong--there is no right or > wrong solution here. I think the arguments about public OOF in general are missing the point. I'm not about to tell anyone they should or shouldn't use OOF -- that's their choice, based on their needs. If you need 'em, use 'em. But we were talking about OOF's that get sent to a mailing list like this one. I can't see any argument in favor of that. To me, that seems -- objectively -- to be incorrect behavior. The rest of the list subscribers have no need to know that a general message in a public forum might not be read by a random person. So it's inconveniencing many, simply because you object to using a separate mailbox/address for lists. Do you have a valid reason for that objection? If there's some overriding reason I might buy it. Otherwise, you're just putting your own convenience ahead of hundreds or even thousands of others. -- Ben ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ -- Sherry Abercrombie "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. Clarke ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~
