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Comments on: “Out of Office” reply is a privacy concern? http://www.excelguru.ca/blog/2008/05/03/out-of-office-reply-is-a-privacy-concern/ More geeky stuff from the author of www.excelguru.ca... Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:51:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ken Puls http://www.excelguru.ca/blog/2008/05/03/out-of-office-reply-is-a-privacy-concern/comment-page-1/#comment-70152 Ken Puls Mon, 05 May 2008 01:13:42 +0000 http://www.excelguru.ca/blog/2008/05/03/out-of-office-reply-is-a-privacy-concern/#comment-70152 Hi Jon, The original issue with this, or the urban legend, anyway, was that you could send an email to two people, each of whom had their auto replies on, and set to respond to all. The theory was that these two other mailboxes would then start replying to each other. When the reply was received, they'd reply again, and so on, ad infinitum. As soon as the default rule to only reply once to each address was set, that issue disappeared though. Hi Jon,

The original issue with this, or the urban legend, anyway, was that you could send an email to two people, each of whom had their auto replies on, and set to respond to all. The theory was that these two other mailboxes would then start replying to each other. When the reply was received, they’d reply again, and so on, ad infinitum.

As soon as the default rule to only reply once to each address was set, that issue disappeared though.

]]> By: Jon Peltier http://www.excelguru.ca/blog/2008/05/03/out-of-office-reply-is-a-privacy-concern/comment-page-1/#comment-70095 Jon Peltier Sun, 04 May 2008 22:18:29 +0000 http://www.excelguru.ca/blog/2008/05/03/out-of-office-reply-is-a-privacy-concern/#comment-70095 I'm not sure how problematic it would be for the Out-of-Office responses to crash the server. I mean, these are responses to incoming messages, so we're talking about at most a doubling of traffic, right? And it the person were in the office, wouldn't s/he be replying to many of these messages anyway? And I recall Exchange being smart enough to only send an Out-of-Office message to the first incoming message from each recipient. The security thing might be to prevent someone finding out that so-and-so is out, then driving to their house and ripping them off. Which seems a bit ridiculous to worry about. I’m not sure how problematic it would be for the Out-of-Office responses to crash the server. I mean, these are responses to incoming messages, so we’re talking about at most a doubling of traffic, right? And it the person were in the office, wouldn’t s/he be replying to many of these messages anyway?

And I recall Exchange being smart enough to only send an Out-of-Office message to the first incoming message from each recipient.

The security thing might be to prevent someone finding out that so-and-so is out, then driving to their house and ripping them off. Which seems a bit ridiculous to worry about.

]]> By: Ken Puls http://www.excelguru.ca/blog/2008/05/03/out-of-office-reply-is-a-privacy-concern/comment-page-1/#comment-70067 Ken Puls Sun, 04 May 2008 20:19:34 +0000 http://www.excelguru.ca/blog/2008/05/03/out-of-office-reply-is-a-privacy-concern/#comment-70067 True enough, Dennis. I remember that Novell Groupwise once had that issue, but it was resolved by a check to see if the auto reply had been triggered to that email address since the rule had been enacted. Net effect was that it would only send one reply to any given email address, alleviating this issue. From what I've seen, Exchange works in the same way. I've forwarded several emails to my boss this last week, and never received another reply. I can't see why it would react differently externally, and indeed the MS article doesn't mention that as a reason. True enough, Dennis.

I remember that Novell Groupwise once had that issue, but it was resolved by a check to see if the auto reply had been triggered to that email address since the rule had been enacted. Net effect was that it would only send one reply to any given email address, alleviating this issue.

From what I’ve seen, Exchange works in the same way. I’ve forwarded several emails to my boss this last week, and never received another reply. I can’t see why it would react differently externally, and indeed the MS article doesn’t mention that as a reason.

]]> By: Dennis Wallentin http://www.excelguru.ca/blog/2008/05/03/out-of-office-reply-is-a-privacy-concern/comment-page-1/#comment-69957 Dennis Wallentin Sun, 04 May 2008 12:12:19 +0000 http://www.excelguru.ca/blog/2008/05/03/out-of-office-reply-is-a-privacy-concern/#comment-69957 Whenever I found something that I may find annoying I try to ask myself why does it exist in the first place? Here I would like to know if the option is enable can be by sending a great number of e-mails crash the Exchange Server? If yes then I can better understand. Kind regards, Dennis Whenever I found something that I may find annoying I try to ask myself why does it exist in the first place?

Here I would like to know if the option is enable can be by sending a great number of e-mails crash the Exchange Server? If yes then I can better understand.

Kind regards,
Dennis

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