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

[Markus Alt]

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On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 10:39:21 +1300, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote:
> Nice advice, although I believe I've read such communications to Herr 
> Duechting in the past.  I hope he figures it out this time.

Me too. Not only for him, but for all of these OoO notifications. And 
not only because they're annoying, but because they're usually followed 
by long threads that are even more annoying. Ever noticed that ...?

 > Out of this, there is the general idea of taking responsibility for
 > the
 > avatars I release into the world.  For instance, people allowing
 > their
 > broadband connected computers to become spam or DOS zombies - whose
 > responsibility is it?  Monetary damages are widely dispersed, so not
 > so easy
 > to see - but the damage is real to real people in real businesses.
 > And their
 > families.

I absolutely agree with you that it's everyone's responsibility to take 
care of what their computers emit. No need to argue about that.

 > In this particular case, IBM gets the black mark by association - why
 > do they
 > allow it to continue?

Allow what? Running a mail program with OoO functionality? Or sending 
OoO notifications to non-corporate mail addresses? Hm, maybe because you 
should be able to notify your business partners that you're not 
available during holiday season ...?

Ok, seriously. If you think that "IBM gets the black mark", that's your 
perception. I would not go as far as to say that any company (be it IBM 
or any other) should be blamed for running a mail tool that one of their 
employees hasn't set up correctly. I assume that there are quite a few 
other IBMers on this list whose auto-responders are not causing any 
problems when they're away.

Thus my proposal to send an email to any "troublemaker" directly and ask 
him/her to get his/her stuff set up right. I guess if someone receives 
complaints from about half a dozen other people, he/she should be well 
aware that there's something that needs to be fixed. At least chances 
are better than if it's discussed on the list. All just my $ 0.02, of 
course. 'Nuff said about this topic now.

Regards,
Markus

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Markus Alt
IBM Lab Boeblingen, Germany
altmark@de.ibm.com



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