<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 21/12/2007, <b class="gmail_sendername">Martin A. Brooks</b> <<a href="mailto:martin@hinterlands.org">martin@hinterlands.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
countd wrote:<br>> Ever the curmudgeon Martin. :)<br><br>Just a slightly jaded list admin is all :)<br><br>> Thing is, while I feel an aversion to<br>> auto responders, users demand them and it can't really hurt to let a
<br>> contact know why you've stopped responding to their emails for ten<br>> days.<br>><br><br>I would imagine the vast majority of the western world will be able to<br>work out why someone's not answering email over xmas and new year, to be
<br>honest.<br>--<br>Gllug mailing list - <a href="mailto:Gllug@gllug.org.uk">Gllug@gllug.org.uk</a><br><a href="http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug">http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug</a><br>
</blockquote></div><br><br>Even removing mailing lists auto responders does not work :)<br><br>This may also be why many automated messages come from address that are not read. <br><br>Auto response message get spam listed by quite a few people meaning any future messages that are real are put in the spam folder too.
<br><br>Secondly if someone sends you an item of spam every week and gets a vacation notice they know that your on holiday and can go and rob your house. Hmm thats an interesting side effect (Where you live is easily available as the government have made the data widely available) :)
<br><br>Peter Childs<br>