On 14 Nov 2005, at 12:06, Leonardo Boselli wrote:

Off topic, but i think someone could help me:
an user in my domain passed away yesteday.
What is the best way to cope with it.
she used her personal office e-mail address to receive correpondence for all the group, so forwarding to her substitute would expose to a leak of
personal correspondence, setting an autoresponder saying the
addressee is dead and office correspondence should be sent to a new
address could lead to people not resending the message to he correct
address.
what to do ?


In addition to Jethro's advice, I'd suggest that in future you should provide people with role based addresses as well as personal addresses. Here at Sussex, for example, we never put an personal address in a prospectus. Instead, we'd use an address like "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". For a group, we might use an address like "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" Now, a personal email address might be used for business purposes, as well as for genuinely personal email, but the problems encountered when someone moves on (whether to another department, organisation or the afterlife) are far fewer.

We've been trying to encourage people to use role based addresses for the past few years now, and this kind of problem is much less common now. In one case - years ago - a prospectus was published with the address of a person who had just left the University!


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Ian Eiloart
Postmaster,
IT Services
University of Sussex




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