I have noticed that for the past few days , the IETF has been flooded with
these so called "OUT OF OFFICE AUTOREPLY"......debate.
But don't you ppl in IETF think that these mails are a way to intimidate the
sender that the person to whom you are sending the mail is out of office or
something......why do we make every small thing such a big issue?
can we not use this medium(IETF) for someting better?
I personally would like to receive some kind of ACK from the person whom I
am trying to send a mail....so that I am rest assured that the mail has
reached him....I agree that in case a mail does not reach the concerned ID
we do get a mailer-deamon normally...yet i prefer this interaction/....
SO LETS STOP THIS DISCUSSION RIGHT HERE...AND USE THE IETF FOR SOMETHING
BETTER
Ashutosh Agarwal
ashutosha(_at_)planetasia(_dot_)com
I trust I make myself obscure
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From: Theodore Tso[SMTP:tytso(_at_)mit(_dot_)edu]
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 06:20 PM
To: Gene Gaines
Cc: David Lemson; Keith Moore; ietf
Subject: Re: Re[2]: too many "Out of Office AutoReply"
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 04:08:20AM -0400, Gene Gaines wrote:
Why in god's name would any email program worth 2 cents
not have this feature?
That's easy; for a long time (although this seems to be less true
today), Microsoft apparently had a strong bias of trying very hard to
hire the best and the brightest --- of people fresh out of college.
Heaven forfend that they actually hire people with industry
experience.
As a result, a lot of things which most people would consider common
sense and common practice don't actually happen until after the first
couple of versions of the program are released and people scream
bloody murder. (After all, good vacation hueristics have been around
for well over a decade.)
However, when MS Exchange finally has this feature, no doubt their
marketing folks will trumpet how they "invented" it. After all, this
is the sort of thing which is why they claim they need the "freedom to
innovate".
- Ted