AW: [ltp] Thorsten Duechting is out of the office.

[James Knott]

Markus Alt wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 07:43:27 -0500, James Knott wrote:
>> I've notice that most of these are coming from someone at IBM, where
>> they use Lotus Notes and Domino server.  Also, while I can't speak for
>> other areas, IBM Canada employees are discouraged from using company
>> email for personal business.  So, unless he's working with something
>> related to Linux, he shouldn't be using his IBM address on this list.
> 
> Would running Linux on the ThinkPad you use at work qualify for "working
> with something related to Linux" in your opinion? That's what I do since
> 1999 and thus I've been subscribed to this list for six years now with
> my IBM address.

I don't know that it would qualify, though it would, if you're providing
Linux support etc.  My work ThinkPad has XP on it, which we need for
some things we do as part of our work (One item is working with a Citrix
Metaframe server, which only wants to talk to IE.  We can't even use
Mozilla on Windows with it).  I have considered putting Linux on my work
system, but haven't got around to it yet.  I have, however, installed
OpenOffice, which I use almost exclusively.

> 
> Regarding these "out of office" mails, I agree that they're annoying.
> However, the OoO function in Lotus Notes allows to define exceptions -
> either to not send replies to all Internet (i.e. non-corporate) mail or
> to exclude specific persons/groups. Sadly enough, some people don't use
> these options or forget to set it up before they leave. But I wouldn't
> assume that they do it by intention.
> 
> So kindly asking them to do that next time would be the best way to make
> them become aware of the problem IMHO.
> 
> Regards,
> Markus
>