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Or you just check the box that says "only send to people at my organization".

by chias 8y ago

kop316 8y ago
I'm glad I wasn't the only person who thought that. Not only that, my work email is very much decoupled from my personal email.
adrianmonk 8y ago
Or? That's one of the strategies that the article states for managing the risk: > Set the autoresponse to the smallest group possible. In many cases you can narrow it down to coworkers, and/or have a different message for people inside your organization than outside your organization.
sm4rk0 8y ago
What if you are working mainly with customers? BTW, the article says: > Set the autoresponse to the smallest group possible. In many cases you can narrow it down to coworkers, and/or have a different message for people inside your organization than outside your organization.
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- bigiain 8y ago
  I think the context of the blog post, "the lonely sysadmin", means "working mainly with customers" isn't its target audience. Bikeshedding for a moment, I suspect the right response for people "working mostly with customers" is for the CRM to automatically re-route known-customer and cold-call emails to someone else on the "working mostly with customer" team, instead of first up telling customers or leads "Sorry, Bob's away for 2 weeks", which is _never_ going to be the message you want to be sending there...
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heavenlyblue 8y ago
Or, you could have a system that only responds this way to e-mails to which you had already responded in the past.
- throwawaymath 8y ago
  But why? At that point I might as well turn off the feature...I can't know everyone who will try to get in touch with me while I'm out of the office. If I could, I'd just tell those people ahead of time. If someone tries to reach me for something unanticipated and I've never responded to them before, they won't receive a notification. This "threat" is a fugazzi. Honestly I can't believe this hit the front page of HN. What a ridiculous "security risk."

Or you just check the box that says "only send to people at my organization".

by chias 8y ago

Or you just check the box that says "only send to people at my organization".

I'm glad I wasn't the only person who thought that. Not only that, my work email is very much decoupled from my personal email.

adrianmonk 8y ago

Or? That's one of the strategies that the article states for managing the risk: > Set the autoresponse to the smallest group possible. In many cases you can narrow it down to coworkers, and/or have a different message for people inside your organization than outside your organization.

sm4rk0 8y ago

What if you are working mainly with customers? BTW, the article says: > Set the autoresponse to the smallest group possible. In many cases you can narrow it down to coworkers, and/or have a different message for people inside your organization than outside your organization.

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bigiain 8y ago
I think the context of the blog post, "the lonely sysadmin", means "working mainly with customers" isn't its target audience. Bikeshedding for a moment, I suspect the right response for people "working mostly with customers" is for the CRM to automatically re-route known-customer and cold-call emails to someone else on the "working mostly with customer" team, instead of first up telling customers or leads "Sorry, Bob's away for 2 weeks", which is _never_ going to be the message you want to be sending there...
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heavenlyblue 8y ago

Or, you could have a system that only responds this way to e-mails to which you had already responded in the past.

throwawaymath 8y ago
But why? At that point I might as well turn off the feature...I can't know everyone who will try to get in touch with me while I'm out of the office. If I could, I'd just tell those people ahead of time. If someone tries to reach me for something unanticipated and I've never responded to them before, they won't receive a notification. This "threat" is a fugazzi. Honestly I can't believe this hit the front page of HN. What a ridiculous "security risk."