Jeroen van Aart wrote: > Phil (Medway Hosting) wrote: > > >> Email is NOT the correct medium to get time imperative responses. >> >> Email is NOT secure. >> >> Email is NOT guaranteed. >> > > I agree fully. It's sad to see how many people base even life changing > decisions on the (non) arrival of emails. Getting mad at your future > ex-spouse because they didn't respond, you get the idea. > >
Isn't that exactly the point of the OoO reply? Sure it would be nice if everyone understood that email isn't perfect, but in the real world if someone thinks I am ignoring them then they will yell and scream/email my boss/set fire to my cat/etc. A well configured autoreply behind a decent spam filter will calm these people down will doing minimal/no damage to everyone else. In a perfect world we should be educating these people instead of catering to them, but try telling the boss of a major customer that he needs to follow up his emails with a phone call. The obvious response would be "Supplier X down the road doesn't make me do that, maybe I will go deal with them". If and when he realises that supplier x doesn't have a perfect email system either, he is already gone and won't be coming back to you. *Michael Heydon - IT Administrator * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
