Dallas News:
“While most vacationing email recipients keep it simple … some cannot resist the opportunity to inject a bit of their personality into their correspondents’ inboxes in absentia,” wrote Emily Gould.
Which, yeah, I guess that’s me. And I guess the story did well, because Facebook and Twitter have been telling me since I woke up today that it’s back on the front page of the Times’ site. So here’s a short story about how a ridiculously long out-of-office reply was born.
Most of us find those auto “out-of-office” replies mildly annoying. This one might make you cry.
Terrific.
Hey, all you new-media channels out there who are purporting to publish stuff that you need people to see? Hire an editor if you don’t have one already. Hire eight of them.
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