[Slightly OT] General Email Question

[Mark Phillips]

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 11:32 PM, Mike Schwartz <mike.l.schwartz at gmail.com>wrote:

> Perhaps the thinking was this:
> During the course of his/her vacation (Mr/Ms "R" = the Recipient, that
> is),
> let's say S (= the Sender) would ordinarily have sent "N" messages to R.
>
> Well, perhaps what the OP (Mark Phillips<mark at phillipsmarketing.biz>)
> meant, is that, once the FIRST of those messages gets an auto-responder
> [robot] -generated "out of office" response, saying, "I'll be back on XYZ
> date", that then, S might desire to wait until XYZ date, to send the other
> ("N minus one") messages to R.
>
I think you mean N + 1 messages to R. And yes, you are correct.
Mark

>
> (right?)
> --
> Mike Schwartz
> Glendale  AZ
> schwartz at acm.org
>
> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 1:03 PM, AZ RUNE <arizona.rune at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I may be mistaken but it sound like he wants the option to schedule the
>> sending before sending it at all.  I don't get the impression double sending
>> was his goal.  Could be wrong but oh well won't be the first or last time.
>>
>> On Jul 9, 2009 12:56 PM, "Bob Elzer" <bob.elzer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>  To me this sounds like it might be very annoying.
>>
>> You send me a message while I was away, when I get back and start going
>> through my emails, I read and reply to yours.
>>
>> Then as I get to the end of my email, I get the same email from you again.
>>
>> Sending me the second email isn't going to get you a faster response, and
>> maybe no response if you keep doing it.
>>
>> I realize there is a chance I did miss your message, and you would have to
>> remind me a second time, but if you automate this it sounds like it could
>> cause problems, like people thinking you are very impatient.
>>
>> not to mention all the extra waste of bandwidth with duplicate messages
>>
>> IMHO
>>
>>
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>> *From:* plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:
>> plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] *On Behalf Of *Mark
>> Phillips
>> *Sent:* Thursday, July 09, 2009 11:45 AM
>> *To:* Phoenix Linux Users
>> *Subject:* [Slightly OT] General Email Question
>>
>> Do any OS email clients have the ability to schedule the sending of an
>> email? For example, I send an...
>>
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