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Vacant email

Vacation email === evil. Just say no.

• It goes wrong too often.

• No one is so important that we all need to know they are on vacation.

• If you are important to me, I had better have more ways to contact you than by just email. And I probably know you are on vacation already anyways.

• Do you have a vacation phone message too? I hope you have a good burglar alarm.

Vacation mail is about as useful as the boilerplate .sig lawyers and brokers put at the bottom of their email telling me the dirty joke they just forwarded to me is privileged information and that if I am not the intended recipient it is my fault not theirs.