Comments on: Auto-Responder Email replies: Ur doin it WRONG.

By: What Would a Customer Satisfaction Survey Reveal about Out of Office Email Auto-Reply? : How To Live On Purpose

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 02:40:18 +0000

[...] A big thank you to Peter Shankman, who gives excellent advice about how not to irritate, annoy and inconvenience people with your out of office email auto-reply: Auto-Responder Email replies: Ur doin it WRONG. [...]

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 23:12:13 +0000

Another pet peeve, the Infinite Loop auto-response:

Jim’s auto-response: “I am out of the office, please contact Bob in my absence”
Bob’s auto-response: “I am out of the office, please contact Jim in my absence”

Me: …

By: James Pader

James Pader — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 15:39:33 +0000

don’t forget the auto-responder that never gets turned off:
“Hi, I’m out of the office until February 3, 2007.”

outside of tech support and online purchases, is there ever an instance where an auto responder is called for?

By: Kim Mack

Kim Mack — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:06:16 +0000

An oldie but goodie. I also can’t stand the auto responders that ask you to respond to their auto-responder so you can be added to their email address book. Seriously?

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Mon, 26 Dec 2011 12:28:20 +0000

[...] Shankman, general cool dude, wrote a great blog post about how people are doing email autoresponders all wrong. Out of his list of five email autoresponder sins, the fifth one has to do with people [...]