Re: Office Assistants [was Mailers]

[Albert Howard <starbuckk@mailroom.com>]

Out-of-office mailers have their place but they do cause problems with mail
lists like this.  Here is my approach:

I use a seperate mail service for receiving mail on mailing lists.
http://www.mailroom.com will allow you to download your mail into any pop3
compatible email client and its free.  You still get the benefit of offline
mail (unlike with Hotmail or Yahoo), your business mailbox isn't loaded
with list mail, AND you don't have to worry about creating havoc when you
have to turn on your out-of-office autoresponder.  Give it a thought!

At 09:49 AM 9/21/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Does anyone have custom Outlook office assistant that sends an out-of-office
>message to everyone except SQR-USERS posters?  In the past, I have wanted to
>turn on the assistant but did not because I didn't want to 'spam' the
>handful of people who might post in the week I was away.  On the other hand,
>neither did I wish to set my list status NOMAIL, because I didn't want to
>miss anything.
>
>I am hoping someone has tackled this before and has a solution.  I'm not
>sure, but I believe a listwide answer to this (if informative and useful)
>would not be too far out of bounds for the list.  In any case, I'd
>appreciate any public or private response you could give me.
>
>I, too, have been momentarily annoyed when I posted and got 3-5 office
>assistant replies telling me that some person I didn't know could be reached
>at a certain pager number.  Then I realized that if I just deleted the
>message and moved on with my day, my stress level didn't have to rise at all
>and no more of my time would have to be 'wasted'. =)
>
>Thanks!