On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 11:34:47AM +0000, Paul L. Allen wrote: > > > Exchange allows vacation messages (done > > > sensibly, not the qmailadmin/autoresponder broken way). > > > > Now that I *strongly* disagree with. Exchange's autoresponders are > > totally broken. > > I have never, ever used Exchange, so I had to go by what others told > me.
I just go by the high annoyance factor of receiving Exchange autoresponses from people subscribed to mailing lists. > > > Riwos has sounds? I am glad I didn't find the test account. Seriously, > > > I can see some people liking them. But they'd have to be something you > > > could enable or disable as a preference. > > > > You can (and it's off by default). But it's an unnecessary option IMO; it > > simply shouldn't be there in the first place. Smacks of "hey I'm clever, I > > can code HTML which makes sounds in your browser". > > Actually, some people would find it useful, believe it or not. You're > busy working in another window and oblivious to the passage of time. Hours > later you remember to check your mail and see that you received an urgent > message a couple of hours ago. That would be useful, but I don't think it notifies you on incoming mail; it's more like background sounds (at least, only the "Sea" scheme says it has sound) It would be hard to arrange anyway - server push? Client auto-refresh every 60 seconds? Cheers, Brian.
