Tips for vacation

When go vacation, I leave phone message, a vague message saying may be in
and out of town so don't be upset if I don't return call.

For e mail, I don't do anything. I have my home address on my website, and
don't want to tip anyone off I'm away, still, I would love to hear any ideas
on how to handle this for clients I may be alienating. Thanks!

Kevs




OS 10.4.7
Office 2004

(=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Corentin_Cras-M=E9neur?=)
Thu Jan 11 12:21:26 CST 2007

kevs <studiok4485@hotmail.com> wrote:

> For e mail, I don't do anything. I have my home address on my website, and
> don't want to tip anyone off I'm away, still, I would love to hear any ideas
> on how to handle this for clients I may be alienating. Thanks!


You can create a script in Entourage to send an "I'm away" message only
to selected contacts from your address book.
That would require to leave ENtourage running the entire time you are
away, but at least you could use that to ignor most e-mails but still
send an "away" message to selected clients trying to contact you by
e-mail,

Corentin


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kevs
Fri Jan 12 01:09:47 CST 2007

On 1/11/07 10:21 AM, in article
1hrrz50.1gk4vlopgsugcN%korventeen@NoSpam.mvps.org, "Corentin Cras-Méneur"
<korventeen@NoSpam.mvps.org> wrote:

> kevs <studiok4485@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> For e mail, I don't do anything. I have my home address on my website, and
>> don't want to tip anyone off I'm away, still, I would love to hear any ideas
>> on how to handle this for clients I may be alienating. Thanks!
>
>
> You can create a script in Entourage to send an "I'm away" message only
> to selected contacts from your address book.
> That would require to leave ENtourage running the entire time you are
> away, but at least you could use that to ignor most e-mails but still
> send an "away" message to selected clients trying to contact you by
> e-mail,
>
> Corentin
>
ThanksC. Well, it's actually the strangers I'm worried about, the "new"
clients, but I'm not sure what I could say that would be polite and say I"m
away without saying I'm away.



OS 10.4.7
Office 2004

(=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Corentin_Cras-M=E9neur?=)
Fri Jan 12 10:29:03 CST 2007

kevs <studiok4485@hotmail.com> wrote:

> ThanksC. Well, it's actually the strangers I'm worried about, the "new"
> clients, but I'm not sure what I could say that would be polite and say I"m
> away without saying I'm away.

The problem with the "strager" is that you would then send the out of
office notification to all discussion lists, spammers,etc, as well :-\


Corentin


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Holman,
Fri Jan 12 11:03:43 CST 2007

-- kevs <studiok4485@hotmail.com> / 11·01·2007 23:09 --
> Well, it's actually the strangers I'm worried about

here's a very non-technical solution: check your account on the road, daily
if you're able. I was in the same situation, concerned about responses to my
on-going marketing while away. auto-responses are fine for your regular
clients/business contacts, but inquiries and referrals require personal
attention in order to maximize that initial contact.

I planned entire vacations around hitting wireless hotspots and toted my
G4book along for the ride. I was able to field some important messages and
sleep well at night knowing my bases were covered.

with the availability of wireless in coffee shops and hotels over the last
few years, your destination list is very broad. here's a great start for
that travel plan (I've found the first to be more complete):
<http://www.wififreespot.com/index.html>
<http://www.wi-fihotspotlist.com/>

_ DA Holman _

Mickey
Fri Jan 12 19:41:41 CST 2007

On 1/11/07 12:21 PM, in article
1hrrz50.1gk4vlopgsugcN%korventeen@NoSpam.mvps.org, "Corentin Cras-Méneur"
<korventeen@NoSpam.mvps.org> wrote:

> kevs <studiok4485@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> For e mail, I don't do anything. I have my home address on my website, and
>> don't want to tip anyone off I'm away, still, I would love to hear any ideas
>> on how to handle this for clients I may be alienating. Thanks!
>
>
> You can create a script in Entourage to send an "I'm away" message only
> to selected contacts from your address book.
> That would require to leave ENtourage running the entire time you are
> away, but at least you could use that to ignor most e-mails but still
> send an "away" message to selected clients trying to contact you by
> e-mail,

You could actually do this without a script simply by assigning a category
like "Send Vacation Reply" (see Edit > Categories > Edit Categories),
assigning the category to the contacts to whom you want to send the reply,
and then creating a rule like this:
* Execute action if any criteria are met
IF From Is in Category Send Vacation Reply
THEN Reply

You can do create other categories & corresponding rules to send different
messages to other contacts.

--
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kevs
Fri Jan 12 21:31:02 CST 2007

On 1/12/07 8:29 AM, in article
1hrtoui.163m6xu1hbzk51N%korventeen@NoSpam.mvps.org, "Corentin Cras-Méneur"
<korventeen@NoSpam.mvps.org> wrote:

> kevs <studiok4485@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> ThanksC. Well, it's actually the strangers I'm worried about, the "new"
>> clients, but I'm not sure what I could say that would be polite and say I"m
>> away without saying I'm away.
>
> The problem with the "strager" is that you would then send the out of
> office notification to all discussion lists, spammers,etc, as well :-\
>
>
> Corentin
>
Thanks Coretin:
Great point! I always see this auto responses, but forgot that those folks
are corporate types with 9-5 jobs using that. Your right, I would end up
not just with the prospective clients, but all idiots too. Thanks! I'm
forgetting about it. At least with the phone you only get a handful of
calls a day -- e mail is still nefarious world.

Thanks David: not at that point yet where be checking so much when travel
for pleasure, but good info to have -- maybe for business trips

Wont work Mickey, the ones I feel bad about most are the prospective
clients, the strangers-- the ones I would like to say, "hey, I might be tied
up so wait a bit..." . People I care about know I'm away.



OS 10.4.7

Office 2004

kevs
Sun Jan 14 18:06:25 CST 2007

On 1/12/07 7:31 PM, in article C1CD9276.1FB9F%studiok4485@hotmail.com,
"kevs" <studiok4485@hotmail.com> wrote:

> On 1/12/07 8:29 AM, in article
> 1hrtoui.163m6xu1hbzk51N%korventeen@NoSpam.mvps.org, "Corentin Cras-Méneur"
> <korventeen@NoSpam.mvps.org> wrote:
>
>> kevs <studiok4485@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> ThanksC. Well, it's actually the strangers I'm worried about, the "new"
>>> clients, but I'm not sure what I could say that would be polite and say I"m
>>> away without saying I'm away.
>>
>> The problem with the "strager" is that you would then send the out of
>> office notification to all discussion lists, spammers,etc, as well :-\
>>
>>
>> Corentin
>>
> Thanks Coretin:
> Great point! I always see this auto responses, but forgot that those folks
> are corporate types with 9-5 jobs using that. Your right, I would end up
> not just with the prospective clients, but all idiots too. Thanks! I'm
> forgetting about it. At least with the phone you only get a handful of
> calls a day -- e mail is still nefarious world.
>
> Thanks David: not at that point yet where be checking so much when travel
> for pleasure, but good info to have -- maybe for business trips
>
> Wont work Mickey, the ones I feel bad about most are the prospective
> clients, the strangers-- the ones I would like to say, "hey, I might be tied
> up so wait a bit..." . People I care about know I'm away.
>
>
>
> OS 10.4.7
>
> Office 2004
>
>
Ok, had idea to today, and want to know what you think:

I make an auto reply that says:
To all existing and prospective clients,
(spammers and newsgroups please ignore this)

note that I will be tied up until Feb 23. Please contact me after that date.
I appreciate it.

What do you all think?

I think it's an idea, but still not sure I will do it. I'd like some
feedback thanks
OS 10.4.7
Office 2004

Diane
Sun Jan 14 23:26:58 CST 2007

On 1/14/07 4:06 PM, in article C1D00581.1FC58%studiok4485@hotmail.com,
"kevs" <studiok4485@hotmail.com> wrote:

> I make an auto reply that says:
> To all existing and prospective clients,
> (spammers and newsgroups please ignore this)

PLEASE make sure your reply does not get sent to any mailing lists as a mail
loop can result and make you very unpopular! Be sure to add "is not from a
mailing list".

See both examples:

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/rules/example/rule003.html>

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/exchange/outofoffice.html>

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kevs
Mon Jan 15 20:48:05 CST 2007

On 1/14/07 9:26 PM, in article C1D050A2.43F0C%dross@nospam.mvps.org.invalid,
"Diane Ross" <dross@nospam.mvps.org.invalid> wrote:

> On 1/14/07 4:06 PM, in article C1D00581.1FC58%studiok4485@hotmail.com,
> "kevs" <studiok4485@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I make an auto reply that says:
>> To all existing and prospective clients,
>> (spammers and newsgroups please ignore this)
>
> PLEASE make sure your reply does not get sent to any mailing lists as a mail
> loop can result and make you very unpopular! Be sure to add "is not from a
> mailing list".
>
> See both examples:
>
> <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/rules/example/rule003.html>
>
> <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/exchange/outofoffice.html>
Probably wont do this at all, what do others think?


OS 10.4.7
Office 2004