Day 222/365: Friday's Unscientific Poll: Automatic replies

[nanila]

Poll #20319 E-mail on holiday

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 60

When I go off on holiday, I set up automatic replies notifying senders of my absence on

my work e-mail account(s)
37 (63.8%)

my personal e-mail account(s)
0 (0.0%)

none of the above
23 (39.7%)

I don't set up automatic replies on my e-mail account because

I like to be mysterious
2 (5.1%)

I figure nobody needs to know (except maybe my boss, if I have one)
8 (20.5%)

I figure nobody cares
10 (25.6%)

They clutter up inboxes
8 (20.5%)

Some other reason which I may describe in comments or may keep to myself (mysterious!)
21 (53.8%)

Comments

[mummimamma]

For my work email it depends on whether I'm actually checking it or not, like when I went on holiday this summer, I was expecting a couple of emails that I really didn't want to give an ooo-reply (even though it led to me writing the introduction to an article at a pub (only place with WiFi!) in the middle of nowhere). If I'm not there and not reading email for more than a week, I put up an automated reply.

Personal email - never. I rarely get personal email on my personal email anymore,so nobody cares.

Also I really detest getting those replies into my inbox. Well, I detest most kinds of email so...