This is from a work-related mailing list. Ironically, in a discussion about ideal mailing-list software, someone neglected to create a rule in their email software specifying that you do not need to send your out-of-office autoreply to a mailing list, and definitely don't need to send it to the same person twice. As a result, her email software is now stuck in a loop, where it sent the autoreply to the list, which automatically sent a copy of it back to her own inbox, which in turn responded with the autoreply. Repeat ad infinitum.
(I am now receiving her autoreply roughly every two minutes).
People, *please* stop being morons.
(It now takes up the entire view of that folder of my inbox.)
Labels: annoyances, common sense, tech, work
1 Comments:
The default in most mail programs, which is intentionally hard to change, is send to each person only one time. Correction the latest version of Outlook doesn't let you change it from "autoreply once for each sender".
Emails to large mailing lists should always be sent BCC with the sender ID redirected.
But what are you going to do with those who are technologically challenged? I guess there used to be, probably still are people who don't know what a gas gauge in a car if for.
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