[Gllug] ``Confidential'' .sigs [Was: hosts.conf/nsswitch.conf

[Doug Winter]

Matthew King wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 09:23 +0000, Doug Winter wrote:
> 
>>I'd say it's both - but abuse is certainly called for in some 
>>situations.  You can't expect to break social rules and get no response 
>>at all.  Sending out-of-office autoreplies in response to list posts is 
>>very bad form indeed, and completely unnecessary.
> 
> But rather difficult to deal with when one is, as the message states,
> Out of the Office.

All vacation software I've ever come across (bar one) doesn't send 
out-of-office autoreplies to email with a "Precedence" header of "bulk" 
or "list".  All mailing list software, pretty much, sets the Precedence 
header to one of these values.  This is a trivial way of avoiding 
unwanted out-of-office autoreplies.

The exception is, obviously, Microsoft Exchange 5.5 (I don't know about 
later versions), which threw away the rule book and implemented a heap 
of steaming crap instead.

Don't use the out of office assistant on Exchange 5.5 if you are 
subscribed to mailing lists.  In fact, don't use Outlook or Exchange if 
you are subscribed to mailing lists - the number of infractions of 
simple rules for lists that it perpetrates is shocking.  Be a good 
citizen and use software that plays nicely.

> People (in general - nothing specifically to do with the post to which
> I'm replying, rather in response to this entire sorry thread) should try
> being less highly strung.

This list is pretty good, largely I suspect because people don't use 
exchange much.  Try posting to SUNMANAGERS sometime, and then wading 
through the 200 autoreplies you get, and see how you feel about it then.

doug.

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