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This is kind of funny....

This advice, which you present like you know what your talking about ( I assume you're in the IT business or similar?), is the exact opposite of what most of the people who I look to for expert opinions in the "internetworking fields" offer as advice on this specific topic.

I have become convinced, and recommend to my clients, that the auto-reply function of most email clients be turned off and not used at all unless you like to give the spammers and marketers a notice that your email address is valid and ready to be added to lists of email addresses to be sold to others and spammed!

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Then there are those people who don't see to care what you do. I use my out of office religiously when I am not here. Even for my regular days off (which lately is .5 per week) And I update the voice mail too. And I still, EVERY WEEK, get one of two emails/calls from people asking me why I did not get back to them by XYZ date - when all methods I have of telling them I am gone say I am gone on that date.

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