- Out of office

[Paul L. Allen]

Tony Green writes: 

> Are there better ways of doing this in the modern world?  Sure!

There were better ways of doing it even in the ancient world. :) 

Better vacation responders have always used heuristics to try to avoid
responding to mailing lists.  The best vacation responders also keep track
of who they've replied to and do not send another reply to the same address
within some configurable number of days.  Either approach (if used sensibly)
would avoid contaminating this list. 

Sadly, Microsoft[turdmark] MUAs have no such intelligence (or if they do
then it is far beyond the ordinary user to enable it).  Set up a vacation
responder in Outhouse[turdmark] or Outhouse Express[turdmark] and it will
happily respond to every mail sent to it, whether that mail is from an
obviously recognizable mail list or not. 

Note that some software mentioned here has a name which is the trademark
of Microsoft[turdmark] and intellectual property laws require that I
identify such software as being trademarked.  I have chosen to identify
such software by using the notation [turdmark] because it is a steaming
pile of shit.  I encourage everyone else who understands that Microsoft
products are steaming turdpiles to do the same. 

-- 
Paul Allen
Softflare Support 




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