Out of Office Replies

[Mike Kallies]

James Knott wrote:
...
> 
> I thought that was a function of the mail server.  A few years ago, I 
> worked at a company that used Lotus Notes.  The out of office messages 
> were sent only to internal addresses.

I'm subscribed to a Lotus Notes mailing list.  There are always about 
5-10 "So-and-so is out of the office... " messages posted every month.

Out of office should _never_ be used outside of the company.

There was a spot on CBC radio a little while back which illustrated the 
security problem with these out-of-office messages:  Criminals have been 
using these to know the names of people who are away on vacation, they 
then look up their addresses in the phonebook and help themselves to the 
contents of their homes.

-Mike

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