Out of Office, Out of Mind Ah, those stinkin' out-of-office auto-replies. Dan Lloyd of Trinity College feels our pain:
I'm currently out of the office until Aug. 16, but will check e-mail sporadically until then. That's right: I'm "out of office" while you, dear reader, are "in office."
I know how you feel. At first you thought, "Wow, Lloyd is really on top of things. He read and replied to my e-mail within seconds. He's competent and he cares." But now, the letdown. Not only have I not replied to your e-mail, I have not even read it, and (even worse) I have decided before looking at it that it could be handled by AutoReply, using no human hand at all.