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

[David Hodgkinson]

On 15 Feb 2006, at 16:47, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:

>>>>>> "Merijn" == Merijn Broeren <merijnb at iloquent.com> writes:
>
> Merijn> He might not be entirely in full control of what his  
> employers shoves
> Merijn> down his throat.
>
> Then he might need to not subscribe from his employer's address,  
> and go
> get a gmail account instead.
>
> I have no sympathy for this.  Email is by no means a *new* thing.   
> We've had
> plenty of *decades* to get it right.

So why do you feel the need to autorespond to mail sent directly to you?

Merijn++ # perceptive

Kieran's one of the more clueful people at GS and I'm sure if he could
turn of Exchange stupidity he would. Also, webmail services are not  
necessarily
bavailable from within a corporate walled garden.