On Nov 23, 2009, at 10:54 PM, Patrick Nagel wrote: >> Shouldn't that be more like: >> >> reject "this guy is gone"; >> keep; > > Yes, that was my first proposal, but that was also rejected harshly by > the other project managers. They wanted to have some "transit time" in > which the replacement guy would still access the leaving guy's mailbox. > > They felt that just deactivating the mailbox and rejecting mails would > be "rude".
Ah, but that's why I had the "keep" there! The reject message of course could have been nicer and said how the guy is gone but this address will be read for a bit longer but anyway stop sending mail here.