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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Out of office/vacation messages
On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 13:56:05 EST, "McBurnett, Jim" said: > RULE #1: If from [email protected] > Move the email to "NANOG EMAILS WHILE I WAS OUT SO I DON'T GET FLAMED > FOLDER." > Stop Processing more rules ... RULE #2: if from [email protected] ... RULE #3: if from [email protected] ... ... RULE #65: If from [email protected] Must really suck to put ALL those rules on and take them off every time you go on vacation. (Yes, I'm on at least 65 mailing lists - and that's just the ones high-volume enough to warrant filtering to their own folder). And even if you're on only 4 or 5 lists, that's enough work to mean it's likely you'll forget one. So you have a choice of nuking *all* OoO messages for *everybody* on the server (even when the OoO message is a *good* idea), or hand-installing all those rules every time you go on vacation (and if you have screen-shots, you hand-installed, since it's hard to take a screenshot of a script ;). On the other hand, BSD 'vacation' came out in 1983, and understood the basic concept waaay back when. All you're managing to do is say "I figured out how to do something once for every single list I'm on, every time I go on vacation, that other systems have been managing to do for their users automatically, without issues if you forget to do it for one of your lists, for 2 decades". Hardly a selling point for your choice of software. Unless it's a disguised "My management makes me use software so broken I have to...." story? Attachment:
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