["Broadfoot, Kieran J" <Kieran.Broadfoot@gs.com>] Out of Office AutoReply: Are apostrophes valid in an email addres s?

[Merijn Broeren]

Quoting Randal L. Schwartz (merlyn at stonehenge.com):
> 
> Then he might need to not subscribe from his employer's address, and go
> get a gmail account instead.
> 
Some employers might not let you use a non-employers supplied e-mail
systems from employer supplied computer systems. Some employers have a
legal responsibility to track *all* messages send by employers. 

> I have no sympathy for this.  Email is by no means a *new* thing.  We've had
> plenty of *decades* to get it right.
> 
Yes and autoresponders that don't discriminate between internal and
external addresses (let alone mailing lists) are a very silly idea
indeed. But this wheel just keeps on being reinvented.

Cheers,
-- 
Merijn Broeren | Sometime in the middle ages, God got fed up with us 
Software Geek  | and put earth at sol.milky-way.univ in his kill-file.
               | Pray all you want, it just gets junked.