Re: New TECHWR-L Poll Question - OoO

Subject: Re: New TECHWR-L Poll Question - OoO
From: "T.W. Smith" <techwordsmith -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 12:46:07 -0500


I don't think the question is, how many subscribers are inactive and
set to NOMAIL.

I think the question is, when you go away from the computer on which
you receive your techwr-l mail or digest -- go away for a while,
vacation, trip, etc. -- do you use an autoresponder to set an OOO
message and, do you set the list to nomail, or what?

And, I'm not sure those transient nomailers get logged anywhere, do
you think so?

Of course, an additional way of handling autoresponses that some
companies use is to broadcast OOO messages internally only and stop
them from being sent outside the company network.

But, I *do* already know how many techwrlers set NOMAIL when using an
autoresponder: TOO FEW!

And, I suspect the purpose of this poll is to RAISE AWARENESS as much
as get a headcount.

IMHO (yhomv), computer professionals should know to set nomail and not
to spam professional email lists with OOO autoresponses.


On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 08:58:11 -0800 (PST), Mike O. <obie1121 -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
>
> Don't you already *know* how many of us are set to NOMAIL? (shouldn't
> be too hard to query). It would be nice to know the real number instead
> of the self-reported poll response. For me, NOMAIL makes it a much
> better experience.


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