Kurt Buff wrote: > Let's take this one farther afield, shall we? > > Differentiating between personal accounts and company email systems, how do > you all classify OOO messages?
As a very annoying breach of net etiquette. > For my personal account (on gmail.com) I consider these things spam, and > report them to gmail as such. I send each and every one of them a polite message reminding them that vacation replies should not be sent to email lists. I want to stress that I try hard to be polite. If everyone took them to task for this then eventually people would have to stop using broken vacation programs. > I haven't started to do anything with them at work, but was wondering if > there were opinions WRT to this kind of email and how they should be > handled. Please, everyone, when you get a vacation message, send an polite and education message back to the one who set it up and ask them never to do that again. It would be a distributed Education of Service attack. Example: You have your vacation autoresponder set to respond to mailing lists! Please don't do that. It will send a reply to everyone (me!) that sends mail to a mailing list to which you are subscribed. That is not good. I know you won't get this message until you return. But next time you set up your vacation autoresponder please don't set it up to respond to mailing lists. That means the autoresponder needs to avoid replying to any message with "Precedence: bulk" or "Precedence: list" in the headers. Or simply unsubscribe from all mailing lists first. Bob
