On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 11:43:52 -0700 Chuq Von Rospach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday, August 14, 2003, at 10:55 AM, Charlie Summers wrote:
>> If you _really_ want to be polite, do NOT send out a vacation message >> to anyone who doesn't absolutely require one. And that, I'm afraid, >> you can NOT automate, since it requires human thought and >> discression. > And this is exactly why I stopped using a vacation bot years ago. I > tell the people who need to know before I leave. I also don't believe > in making it clear to the entire universe that my house and home are > open to visitors (ahem) because I'm not there (even though we have > people visiting and watching and sitting, depending on the trip, my > sitters don't need that excitement, either). Precisely, and that's why I don't use vacation bots of any form. However there does remain a need for some sort of status communications: I currently do/do not have time to do the following sorts of things... be that participate in specific mailing lists, moderate, respond to direct email, etc. Umm, isn't that what .plan files and `finger` are for, or even their more recent incarnations as blogs? -- J C Lawrence ---------(*) Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas. [EMAIL PROTECTED] He lived as a devil, eh? http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live.
