Oh, I hate that:
I will be out of the office starting 09/01/2003 and will not return until
09/08/2003.
I will respond to your message when I return.
The thing is, those autoresponders seem to take anything between one minute and one week to respond so I have no idea to which of my mails the above is referring to. Clearly it must be from some mailing-list (where I always cc my mail to the OP).
People using such autoresponders when being subscribed to mailing-lists should be unsubscribed (or preferably: shot or sent to the moon).
Re:At least one annoying p5p subscriber does this.
ethan on 2003-09-07T10:55:25
Ah, good you warned me.
Well, Randal, you heard it: no more CCs from me.:-) Re:At least one annoying p5p subscriber does this.
merlyn on 2003-09-07T13:55:14
I respond monthly with a FAQ-pointer to non-bulk email that has my name explicitly in the headers, and always reply from a distinct email address that's trivial to filter.Note the four conditions. Also note that it's not what was claimed.
I am still not clear about why having a FAQ-pointer response to mail addressed directly to me that appears only once a month is considered harmful. It's not list mail. It's only direct mail. You don't want it? Fine. Remove my name from the header of the p5p email, or filter on the reply name (merlyn's-answering-machine@stonehenge.com).
Re:At least one annoying p5p subscriber does this.
ethan on 2003-09-07T16:12:09
Also note that it's not what was claimed.
Right, it isn't. Note that I was stupid: Since I never so far received any of these FAQ-pointers (and Arthur mentioned it in the context of vacation-autoresponders), I somehow deduced that you'd send out mails telling people about your vacational status.
Glad to hear you don't.:-)
Interesting that there's a parallel thread here to my own properly-constructed autoreponder. {grin}
