OT: Why out of office messages are evil.

[Scott Silva]

on 11-5-2008 2:57 PM Hugo van der Kooij spake the following:
> Kevin Miller wrote:
>> OK, for those of you having a bad day, here's a modicum of levity that
>> is, well, sorta tangentially on topic.  Enjoy.
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/7702913.stm
> 
>> Hope it helps.  With the bad day that is...
> 
> It just might. But will it stop stupid auto responders?
> 
> Perhaps they can add a X-I-am-a-braindead-autoresponder header to those
> messages? Then we can just filter them out and be done with them on
> mailinglists.
> 
> Maybe we should write up a RFC to make it mandatory for any
> autoresponder. (BTW: anyone familiar with formatting a RFC style text?)
> 
> Hugo.
> 
http://www.rfc-editor.org/howtopub.html
will give you everything you need, and probably a headache to go with it.
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