Re: [exim] Out of Office and collateral spam

On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, WJCarpenter wrote:

> > Summary: you cannot infer anything useful from a lack of response,
> > other than the fact that you haven't received a response.
>
> Yeah, but .... we're not talking about the lack of a response. We're
> talking about an out of office message or similar. You don't have to
> infer anything from that ... it comes right out an tells you.

Esther was talking about what she infers from getting neither an OoO, nor
a prompt response to her message,

My argument is simply that that inference, while understandable, does not
take into account the other possibilities.

Jethro,

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Jethro R Binks
Computing Officer, IT Services
University Of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK