if you want to do this job - just doit ;-) i can provide you the mails of the last 12 months ,-) but i will not filter out what is vacation ,-.)
-steven > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tonnerre LOMBARD > Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 9:23 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [swinog] [RFC] Automatic holiday monitoring tool > > Salut, > > Since we receive a bunch of out-of-office replies on every > post to swinog, why not use it for something useful? This is > what I came up with. > > The german c't magazine is publishing an annual survey of IT > related jobs with regard to income and working conditions. We > could now monitor the amount of holidays taken per swinog > user and match it to their profession, so we get a clear > survey of how many holidays people may take if they have a > certain title. > > For the technical implementation part, it would suffice to > install a mail filter on the mail servers of the most active > swinog posters. This filter would automatically authenticate > cryptographically to an interface and send the name of the > person it received an out-of-office reply from. The interface > would then deduce that this person is on a holiday, and > update its statistics. > > This is valuable information! Maybe we should all > misconfigure our /usr/libexec/vacation in order to get better results. > > Tonnerre > _______________________________________________ swinog mailing list [email protected] http://lists.swinog.ch/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swinog
